Find Out Who HBO Is Blaming For the House of the Dragon Finale Leaking Online

On Oct. 21, HBO confirmed that the highly-anticipated season one finale of House of the Dragon had been leaked online. Find out what the network said about the "unlawful action."

By Daniel Trainor Oct 21, 2022 10:03 PMTags
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Forget about Daemon Targaryen, HBO has a real-life power hungry scoundrel on their hands. 

On Oct. 21, HBO confirmed that the season one finale of House of the Dragon, set to premiere Oct. 23, had been leaked—and the network is trying to get to the bottom of what the heck happened. 

"We are aware that the tenth episode of House of the Dragon has been posted on illegal torrent sites," a spokesperson for HBO said in a statement to Variety. "It appears to have originated from a distribution partner in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East or Africa) region. HBO is aggressively monitoring and pulling these copies from the Internet."

In case you're feeling eager to check it out, HBO insisted that the leaked version doesn't even look very good anyway!

"We're disappointed that this unlawful action has disrupted the viewing experience for loyal fans of the show," the statement continued, "who will get to see a pristine version of the episode when it premieres Sunday on HBO and HBO Max, where it will stream exclusively in 4K."

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While unfortunate, this certainly isn't the first time the Game of Thrones universe has fallen prey to leaks. 

In August 2017, the fourth episode of Game of Thrones' seventh season leaked online just days before it was due to premiere. The leak was blamed on Star India, one of HBO's distribution partners.

Later that same month, the sixth episode of the seventh season also leaked online, but this time the network had nobody else to blame. HBO Spain, the international version of the cable network, accidentally posted the episode early.

Whoops!

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As for what the House of the Dragon finale has in store, Olivia Cooke, who plays Queen Alicent Hightower on the fantasy series, teased to E! News in August that viewers should expect "Dread, dread, immediate dread."

We're confident it will be worth the wait.

The season one finale of House of the Dragon premieres Oct. 23 at 9 p.m. on HBO.

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