Confirmed: House of The Dragon Season 2 Starts 17 June 2024

The second season of House of the Dragon comes to both Showmax and M-Net from 17 June 2024. The Emmy-winning first season was named Best TV Series – Drama at the 2023 Golden Globes and Best TV Series at Rotten Tomatoes’ Golden Tomato Awards for the best reviewed show of 2022.

The HBO series is scheduled to start in the USA on 16 June 2024 but due to our timezone that is ahead of the USA, the HBO start time is the exact time that we get to watch it in South Africa.

Based on George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, House of the Dragon is set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones and tells the story of House Targaryen.

One complaint many fans had about the first season was that especially with indoor scenes and night scenes, the show had a literal darker hue compared to Game of Thrones which, even on some of the best TV screens, means that House of The Dragon needed to be watched in a completely dark room to be able to fully immerse oneself in the story.
It’s not a deal breaker but yeah, it is a bit of an ick; however, by the looks of the trailers, it seems that this may have been addressed to some small degree that won’t necessarily take anything away from the scenes that need to evoke a sense of ‘dark foreboding’.

WATCH House of The Dragon Season 2 Green Trailer

Matt Smith is back in his Critics Choice-nominated role as Daemon Targaryen, as is Emma D’Arcy in her Golden Globe-nominated role as Rhaenyra Targaryen. Olivia Cooke, Eve Best, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel and Rhys Ifans also return.

House of The Dragon Season 2 – Image: Supplied by ShowmaxNew cast this season include BAFTA nominee Abubakar Salim (Father in Raised by Wolves) as Alyn of Hull, Gayle Rankin (Sheila the She-Wolf in GLOW) as Alys Rivers, Freddie Fox (Slow Horses, The Great) as Ser Gwayne Hightower, and Kieran Bew (Bill O’Hara in Warrior) as Hugh.