When “House of the Dragon” director Geeta Vasant Patel says, “I'm gonna tell you a story,” pay attention, because you're in for a moving saga. Her track record with the series proves it – she steered Season 1's epic “Lord of the Tides,” which still ranks as the series' highest-rated among IMDb users.
That episode set up Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) to install her son Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) on the throne, which Alicent’s husband King Viserys Targaryen had previously promised to his daughter Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and named his heir before the great houses. Viserys is mortally ill, alive but rotting away.
