House of the Dragon’s Mysaria/Rhaenyra Moment Was Not in the Script

Spoilers for House of the Dragon season two, episode six, “Smallfolk.”

There’s no shortage of information traders in House of the Dragon, and while all are important to the political fate of Westeros, few are as unpredictable as Sonoya Mizuno’s Mysaria. Episode six brings her strategy front and center, establishing Mysaria and Rhaenyra’s mutual trust through a pointed revelation from the former and ending on a hypercharged kiss that throws the future of their dynamic into question.

After a series of questionable...