House of the Dragon Season 2, Episode 4’s worst person isn’t who you think.
SlateAfter each episode of House of the Dragon, Slate writers will gather to answer a crucial question: Who is the worst person in Westeros? And then, in the episode’s closing scenes, it looks like he’s about to just straight-up finish his brother off after Aegon’s disastrous tussle with Rhaenys and Meleys, before Criston Cole catches him in the act. Is Aemond this week’s worst, and moreover, what did you think of this season’s first real dragon battle? We have been waiting for an all-out dragon fight for a long time—not counting Aemond’s semi-accidental murder of his nephew Lucerys at the end of the first season. Aegon and Aemond are basically straight-up bad people who don’t really seem to care about being anything otherwise—Aegon assuredly more so, but throughout this show we’ve Adams: Well, surprise, surprise!