Winter could by no means come — if HBO‘s launch schedule continues to gestate at a glacial tempo.
That’s among the many working gags within the Saturday Night Live Lower for Time sketch titled “Blonde Dragon Individuals,” which pokes enjoyable on the network-streamer and its star status sequence House of the Dragon. Within the six-minute-long video, a gaggle of buddies change into more and more confused with the present’s quick runtime and lengthy taking pictures schedule, terribly similar-sounding names and continuity errors.
Dorgos, Dormos, Dargomos, Dorgon and Dorman are only a handful of the names that confuse the group, which includes SNL stars Andrew Dismukes, Heidi Gardner, Devon Walker and newcomer Jane Wickline.
As they watch the present’s recap — as performed by Chloe Fineman, Kenan Thompson, Bowen Yang and a closely accented and nonsensical James Austin Johnson (clearly parodying Matt Smith’s Daemon Targaryen in HOTD) — the buddies begin to lose monitor of plot factors, questioning why there’s a canine with “blonde dreads,” a inventory video of a bat rather than a dragon and why “each particular person and metropolis” has the “similar bizarre identify.”
“I imply even in Sport of Thrones they gave us one man named John,” Dismukes’ character remarks.
Nonetheless, the host of Season 50’s premiere, Jean Smart, is given probably the most ridiculous traces but, stating regally: “Sure, it’s I, Dorgos, daughter of Doremos and sister of Daragmos, ruler of the seven 5 lands and keeper of the 11 three keys. Solely I can reclaim the dominion stolen from Doregmon, by the usurper Dormegon.”
She provides at one other level, “You’ll by no means silence the folks of East New Westersouth, from the isles of Rizzoli to the ranches of Hidden Valley,” referencing the drama present Rizzoli & Isles and standard ranch model.
To additional confuse issues, in comes shock visitor Andy Samberg (who appeared earlier within the night time because the Douglas Emhoff to Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris during the Cold Open) and musical visitor Jelly Roll, who seem as Orlando Bloom’s Legolas and Sean Astin’s Samwise Gamgee from The Lord of the Rings, respectively.
As such, the sketch turns to poking enjoyable on the streaming wars, with Sensible remarking that their present is on Amazon Prime as a substitute. Thompson then goes on a brief historic tangent as he outlines the transition of HBO from HBO Now, then HBO Go, then HBO Max and now simply Max, which Samberg’s character says “sounds dangerous.”
With the recap concluded, the tv publicizes — in signature Westerosi font — that the brand new season has concluded. “I simply regarded it up. The subsequent season doesn’t air till 2028. It’s just like the Olympics,” Gardner bemoans.
However that’s OK, since followers can watch one thing referred to as “Dragging Dragons” within the meantime, about drag queens dragging the costumes from the present “solely on, weirdly, HBO Latino.”
In regards to the fractured Home Targaryen and happening almost 200 years previous to the occasions of Sport of Thrones, Home of the Dragon — which simply accomplished airing its second season Aug. 4 after eight episodes — has been renewed for two more seasons for a complete of 4 total. A following installment is about for launch in 2026, with manufacturing commencing early subsequent yr.
