House of the Dragon same-sex kiss episode gets ‘review-bombed’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. While many fans have praised the episode, titled “Smallfolk”, for including queer romance, others have heavily criticised the improvised kiss, with 33 per cent of viewers giving the instalment a one star rating on IMDb. Another fan fumed: “Adding this kind of pointless scene suggested by some actress who plays the character or unstudied ideas by a writer who doesn’t even understand this world and treats it’s his own will shift the story from deep conflict between a family and a deadly war to some cheap version that doesn’t relate to the main conflict.” However, after the slew of one star reviews, the most common rating for the sixth episode of the Houses of the Dragon series was 10 stars, which made up 20.4 per cent of the overall rating, despite the significant backlash. open image in gallery Emma D’Arcy as adult Rhaenyra in ‘House of the Dragon’ “If I say that Rhaenyra and Mysaria’s kiss is thousands of times hotter than any of the straight sex scenes on the show, then what?” questioned one fan. open image in gallery Sonoya Mizuno in ‘House of the Dragon’ Mizuno noted that while she and D’Arcy wanted the kiss to avoid feeling “queer-baity in any sense,” she added that the intimacy of their hug made their kiss feel “emotionally so right.” Watch Apple TV+ free for 7 days New subscribers only.