For the second year in a row, House of the Dragon‘s season finale has leaked on-line—most of it, anyway. As initially reported by Variety, dozens of clips from the August 4 episode have been posted to a brand-new TikTok account earlier than being rapidly deleted by HBO. Nevertheless, the clips escaped to different social media platforms the place they proceed to spoil the finale for Recreation of Thrones diehards as we communicate.
We is not going to reveal right here what these clips depicted (we’re not monsters), however as much as half-hour of footage in complete from the ultimate episode purportedly made its means on-line by way of the rogue TikTok account. Whereas the account was suspended three hours after the movies went dwell, the scenes shortly escaped to different social media platforms like Reddit and X, which within the 12 months since its post-Twitter rebranding, has become increasingly lax in moderating leaked or pirated uploads.
To make sure there could be no leaks (womp womp), HBO didn’t launch any screener copies of the finale to on-line media retailers, one thing it has completed prior to now in an try and crack down on spoilers. As beforehand talked about, final 12 months’s Home of the Dragon finale leaked on-line in its entirety simply two days earlier than its meant airdate—to not point out the numerous Recreation of Thrones leaks over time—which, as Vulture reported on years ago, are almost not possible for the community to regulate.
Whereas its programming is a paid prescription in america, HBO repackages its series for broader services, stations, and streaming networks worldwide. As an example, in the UK and western Europe, the corporate will go its programming to Sky Atlantic, which then makes the content material obtainable on its Now TV streaming platform. Because the saying goes, there’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, so this leak may’ve come from anyplace on the earth.
So bear in mind: in the event you see one thing, say one thing… until it’s the Home of Dragon finale. I wish to wait till this Sunday.
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