“Game of Thrones” fans may have experienced deja vu while watching the seventh episode of the HBO pre-series “House of the Dragon,” which angered many fans with many scenes being too dark to see. Thrones sparked a similar backlash during its final season, especially in the dimly lit battle episode “The Long Night.” Both that episode and Episode 7 of “House of the Dragon” were directed by Emmy Award winner Miguel Sapochnik.
Many fans also took to Twitter to express their frustration With House of the Dragon being too dark to see, an HBO social media account was announced to defend the episode’s dark moments as an “intentional creative decision.”
The HBO Max Help account responded to a fan who wrote the network needed to “issue a written apology for the literally everything ‘episode of black screen’.”
“The dim lighting of this scene was an intentional creative decision,” the HBO account said.
Many fans claimed that the episode was “unwatchable” because the screen was too dark. Ranger writer and podcast writer Joanna Robinson Tried to warn fans Before airing the episode to update their TV settings to make the screen brighter, he added, “Watch it with all the blinds closed.”
Sapochnik is no stranger to this kind of backlash given the anger he faced over the dark scenes in “The Long Night.” he is I spoke to IndieWire At the time he defended the creative choice, saying that dark cinematography is what the show’s atmosphere needs.
“It made sense that this would be humanity’s last hope, the last beacon of light, and from the perspective of where we needed to go—which was to reach the climax of surrealism and anarchy—we needed a friendly environment that’s this,” Saposhnik said. “So all the reasons for doing it were there, and nobody just sat there wondering if it was going to be so dark.”
“House of the Dragon” runs Sunday nights at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.
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