News A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Westeros Gets Better Jokes and Worse Wigs in New A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Trailer One does wonder if there are any named female characters in this series. By Molly Templeton | Published on December 5, 2025 Screenshot: HBO Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: HBO One thing is consistent across Game of Thrones and its spinoffs: the Targaryens are, far more often than not, quite awful. In the latest trailer for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, they are described as “incestuous aliens and tyrants!” I have questions about what “aliens” means in this world, but I will let it stand. Knight, based on the trailers, would really, really like you to know that it is not like those other Game of Thrones series. Yes, there are nobles and swords and probably some treachery, muddy hillsides and an assortment of bad wigs, tyrannical Targaryens and morally questionable knights, but also, there are things resembling jokes. (There’s also joust-cam, which is a bit of an assault on the senses.) Is it possible Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) may have something that resembles a sense of humor to go along with his honor-focused righteousness? Is the small bald child, Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), going to keep making gently sly jabs about how desperately Duncan needs a squire? Is it funny to call a hedge knight “like a knight, but sadder”? The jury is still out. Poor Duncan, though. He wishes for some great house to sign him on as a real, official knight, but then there are all these Targaryens about, ruining everything. The prime Targaryen, Prince Aerion Targaryen, is played by Finn Bennett, who was excellent in a very different role on True Detective: Knight Country, and also in Black Doves. His Targaryen has a magnetism that doesn’t make sense, given what we know about this family. Perhaps it’s the hair. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is intended to be a smaller-scale story, largely about common folk, though anyone who has dipped a toe into George R.R. Martin’s source novellas (or the related wikis) knows that isn’t, strictly speaking, entirely true. It takes place a hundred years before Game of Thrones, so you won’t see any familiar faces, but the visual style is much the same. One must have fantastical consistency, after all. Ira Parker, a producer and writer on House of the Dragon, is the showrunner for this journey to knighthood. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms premieres January 18th, 2026, on HBO. [end-mark] The post Westeros Gets Better Jokes and Worse Wigs in New <i>A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms</i> Trailer appeared first on Reactor.