Many Home of the Dragon viewers had been left squinting at their screens on Sunday evening as they struggled to make out the occasions of episode seven.
Followers on social media protested that the lighting on the present was too darkish – a grievance typically levied on the present’s predecessor, Recreation of Thrones.
The Unbiased has contacted HBO for remark.
Hours earlier than the episode aired, author and podcaster Joanna Robinson suggested followers on Twitter: “I favored this week’s episode of #HouseOfTheDragon however certain yeah watch it with all of the drapes closed and perhaps, yeah, contemplate The Neil Settings.”
Robinson linked to a video instructing viewers on regulate their tv units for exhibits with darkish lighting like HotD.
“My notes are stuffed with ‘WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHY CANT I SEE IT?’” Rolling Stone’s chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall replied.
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“Can somebody please flip the brightness up on this episode I can’t see s***,” one fan tweeted alongside a viral meme of a lady squinting.
“My GOD I am unable to see s*** throughout the seashore scene between daemon and rhaenyra… cannot even see their rattling faces,” one other fan tweeted.
In the meantime, others in contrast the episode to Recreation of Thrones’ famously darkish battle sequence in “The Lengthy Night time” (season eight, episode three).
John MacMillan in ‘Home of the Dragon’
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“Rattling why the f*** is it so darkish this episode it’s worse than ‘The Lengthy Night time’ I can’t see s***,” a viewer tweeted.
“I see HBO discovered completely nothing after complaints of ‘The Lengthy Night time’ being too darkish,” one other wrote. “If I had been watching #HouseOfTheDragon on a crappier TV I might be pissed.”
Home of the Dragon continues each Sunday within the US on HBO at 9pm. The episode is simulcast on Monday mornings within the UK on NOW, and is proven once more at 9pm on Sky Atlantic.
Discover the largest speaking factors from episode seven right here.
