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 had been posted to a brand-new TikTok account earlier than being rapidly deleted by HBO. Nonetheless, the clips escaped to different social media platforms the place they proceed to spoil the finale for Recreation of Thrones diehards as we converse.
We won’t 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 approach on-line via the rogue TikTok account. Whereas the account was suspended three hours after the movies went reside, the scenes rapidly escaped to different social media platforms like Reddit and X, which within the yr since its post-Twitter rebranding, has become increasingly lax in moderating leaked or pirated uploads.
To make sure there can be no leaks (womp womp), HBO didn’t launch any screener copies of the finale to on-line media shops, one thing it has executed prior to now in an try and crack down on spoilers. As beforehand talked about, final yr’s Home of the Dragon finale leaked on-line in its entirety simply two days earlier than its supposed airdate—to not point out the numerous Recreation of Thrones leaks over time—which, as Vulture reported on years ago, are practically unattainable for the community to manage.
Whereas its programming is a paid prescription in the US, HBO repackages its series for broader services, stations, and streaming networks worldwide. As an illustration, in the UK and western Europe, the corporate will cross 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 wherever on this planet.
So keep in mind: in case you see one thing, say one thing… except it’s the Home of Dragon finale. I wish to wait till this Sunday.
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