A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms review: Game of Thrones prequel is a surprising comfort watch

The last thing you'd ever expect a Game of Thrones show to be is comforting.

After all, comforts are few and far between in Game of Thrones and its prequel, House of the Dragon. In those series, you'd be lucky to get through an episode without witnessing some combination of graphic violence, rape, or torture.

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Yet "comforting"...