Season 2 of House of the Dragon stays on the acute difficulty of living within one’s social coordinates. Instead of intrigue and conflict we get an entire season of hair pulling and heel grinding. And rather than building to a dramatic payoff, it cuts off with a season finale of characters who are only now charging in to battle. IS there an interesting way to read this? Can the structure of setting up viewer disappointment itself be interesting? Perhaps, but it takes some careful thought...