The third season of House of the Dragon is coming our way, and that has caused some to once again gripe about the season two finale.
Those online grumblings, however, have not changed the course of the two remaining seasons, according to showrunner Ryan Condal. “We have a plan, we’re going to stick to it, we’re not going to listen to the noise in between,” he said during a press conference that Reactor attended.
Condal went on to emphasize that the four planned seasons of the show are all telling one larger story, and that people shouldn’t get upset about something that happens in the middle when they haven’t seen the end yet.
“I realize that this is a four-season show, you have to wait two years in between each chapter, but ultimately this is one story we’re telling,” Condal said. “I mean, to get upset about something midway is to react in the middle of a play that you don’t like the turn that the story took in the middle…There’s a whole another two acts coming, and I think that’s where we are. I get the frustration. It’s a long downtime between seasons. It just takes a long time to make the show.”
Condal then laid out the timeline. Once the scripts are done, prep and shooting take about a year, and then it takes another seven to eight months to add in the dragons. “I’m very sorry, but you guys decided to be fans of the show called House of the Dragon,” he joked, referring to the long dragon-design time.
The third season of House of the Dragon premieres on HBO and HBO Max at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Sunday, June 21, 2026. Condal is currently working on the scripts for the fourth season, though the team is a few months out from prep and shooting.
