A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms; Arctic Adventure: Ultimate Survival

“In Game of Thrones franchise terms, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a bagatelle. If House of the Dragon was born of a desire to turn the tide of fans’ anger over the original’s finale (or final season. Or final seasons. Discuss animatedly until even Jon Snow is bored to death) while keeping the appetite for more alive until GRRM had completed his masterwork, this new offering seems to be something quite different. What this means for our collective hopes for the two remaining books in the sequence, let us not dwell. One of the most obvious points of departure is that while GoT burned through plot like Maester Pycelle’s wildfire through Stannis’s fleet, very little happens in the average episode of AKotSK (which comes in at about the 30-minute mark instead of its progenitor’s full and weighty hour). We are here for the budding friendship between knight and squire, even if it is not always clear – given Egg’s much greater knowledge of how the world works than dear old Dunk’s – which way round those roles are allocated, and a level of emotional investment in the pair that it would have been frankly foolish to apply to any of the characters in GoT once we saw what they did to Ned Stark.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“For The Donald, currently threatening to send U.S. troops to invade Greenland, the show ought to be a salutary warning. No matter how well trained and equipped the American forces, they would be up against Arctic troops who thrive in conditions that are unsurvivable for most. Jason Fox’s team quickly dropped the pretence they had any hope of competing. Instead, this one-off programme took the opportunity to examine why so many former servicemen struggle with mental health problems after leaving the forces.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail