"HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms opens with a squire named Dunk (Peter Claffey) facing a crossroads: The knight he served has died, and now he's got three horses, a suit of armor, and no one around to tell him what to do. Lacking coin, he decides that maybe the right answer is to enter a tournament... An idea which immediately wreaks havoc on his bowels."
"Opening with a poop joke is a hilarious way to begin a series that, from its tone to its 30-to-40-minute-long episodes, establishes itself as quite different from the adaptations that preceded it: intimate as opposed to epic, far more lighthearted in nature. It's still Game of Thrones, so human bodies are still squishy and prone to being killed in brutal ways."
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms follows Dunk, a squire left with three horses and a suit of armor after his knight dies, who enters a tournament to try to earn coin. Dunk reluctantly takes on a young volunteer squire named Egg, forming an odd-couple partnership that drives the season. Episodes run about 30–40 minutes and emphasize intimate, comedic moments alongside moments of brutal physical danger. The series focuses on ordinary people concerned with daily survival rather than dynastic politics. The story is set decades after major succession battles and decades before later widespread warfare.
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