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House of the Dragon Will End With Season 4 as Writers Submit Final Scripts

Showrunners are sending drafts for an eight-episode, targeted 2028 finale that must wrap unresolved plotlines from Season 3.

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Based on Robert Jordan’s book series of the same name, the series follows five young people from a small village who are believed to be the Dragon Reborn — a figure believed to be so powerful they can go toe-to-toe with the Dark One in the prophesied Last Battle. The series is filled with magic and epic battles, as well as characters who teeter on the edge of good and evil. It premiered in 2021 and ran for three seasons; Prime Video unfortunately canceled the series in 2025.
Based on Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Stories, this series follows Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon), a Saxon taken by Vikings as a child and raised by a Danish warlord. Focusing on a world that is on the brink of transformation, the series is filled with riveting action that rivals some of the most talked about battles in Game of Thrones. The show’s five seasons were capped off by a stand-alone film, The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die, an epic conclusion to one of the decade’s most underrated epics.

Overview

  • HBO and the show’s creative team have confirmed Season 4 will be the series’ final season and the writers are already submitting script drafts to the network.
  • Production is targeting an eight-episode return in 2028, though HBO has not announced firm shooting or release dates.
  • The Season 3 finale dramatically changed the on-screen balance of the Targaryen civil war and left several major plotlines unresolved for the concluding season.
  • Cast and fans have reacted strongly to the finale, with a short moment from the episode turning into a widespread meme and actors reporting the line being repeated to them in public.
  • Showrunner Ryan Condal says he has largely completed the rise-of-the-Targaryens story he set out to tell and has expressed interest in a separate future project about the dynasty’s fall told from the Targaryens’ perspective.