# 3452: House of the Dragon S03E04: Smellicle Ball
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🗓️ 14 July 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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This week’s House of the Dragon introduces a new Targaryen and gives rise to a new villain obsessed with homemade potpourri. Meanwhile, RaeRae hears about Cats and rushes to get tickets before it closes. You can get videos of this recap To watch this recap on video, listen to our bonus episodes, and get ad free listening, go to Patreon.com/watchwhatcrappens.
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| 0:00.0 | One, two, three, four. One, two, three, and welcome to winter is Cropeting. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm Ronnie, and that's Ben over there. |
| 0:41.6 | Hello, Ben. |
| 0:43.2 | Hi, Ronnie. |
| 0:44.4 | How's it going? |
| 0:45.8 | Good. |
| 0:46.3 | We were off last week, so we missed an episode of House of the Dragon, and it was a good one. |
| 0:52.3 | This season has stayed pretty good what do you |
| 0:56.2 | yeah it's so good i love this season this is the first season of this show where i felt like i've |
| 1:04.6 | genuinely really am loving the show i felt like especially the first season i did not like |
| 1:10.3 | obviously all that time jumping, |
| 1:12.0 | of the timeline skipping. It was just incredibly annoying. It's hard to get into the characters. |
| 1:16.4 | It's hard to care about what was going on. Last season was definitely better, but it would still |
| 1:21.5 | sometimes be a bit slow. Now, what I really enjoy about this third season is that the stakes have been established and |
| 1:31.3 | there's lots of different factions and groups that were tracking. And that was what I always felt |
| 1:37.7 | made Game of Thrones so special was that you have this rich tapestry of people and houses |
| 1:43.4 | and families all with their own motivations. |
| 1:46.6 | And it was always so interesting to see the way they would all interweave and how one person's |
| 1:51.4 | decision and one part of the story would actually have a huge ripple effect in this part |
| 1:55.6 | of the story and would undermine plans and everything would go wrong. |
| 1:59.3 | And I felt like, especially in the first season and |
| 2:01.9 | somewhat in last season, we didn't really get that. And now I feel like the show feels like a |
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