A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Season 1, Episode 1, "The Hedge Knight"
A Storm of Spoilers
Dave Gonzales and Neil Miller
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This week, Da7e and Neil return to Westeros to meet Ser Dunk and his new friend Egg as they make their way to a tourney and HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms gets underway.
In The Calm [04:26], they discuss the show's leisurely pace and lighter tone, the chemistry between its leads, and the many colorful banners they spotted in Ashford Meadow. They also discuss the lore behind stories about The Vulture King and the mummers' play about the knight with the mirror shield.
Then in The Storm [54:16], your faithful hosts break down the "Weeks Ahead" trailer and discuss how the show will pad out the plot of George R.R. Martin's novella with flashbacks, dragon dreams, and feats of strength.
Next week, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms continues with episode two, "Hard Salt Beef" on Sunday evening, then Da7e and Neil will be back in your feeds with their deep dive on Monday afternoon.
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| 0:00.0 | Beware, spoiler phobes, you have stumbled into a storm of spoilers, a podcast currently covering HBO's A Night of the Seven Kingdoms, a series returning us to Westeros decades before John Snow and the Good Boy Ghost, and decades after the incest dragon war. |
| 0:14.9 | This podcast is split into two sections in the first Calm section. |
| 0:19.2 | Neil and I will cover the premiere episode of the first |
| 0:22.3 | season of the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, titled The Hedge Knight, which is also the title |
| 0:27.7 | of the novella this season is based on. In the second storm section, Neil will use his knowledge |
| 0:33.9 | of that George R. Martin's source text to discuss what is coming for Sir Dunk |
| 0:39.8 | the Tall and his bald-headed squire. We're not ruining. We're enriching. The realm. Do you know |
| 0:47.5 | what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of Egan's enemies. A story we agreed to tell each other over and over until we forget that it's a lie. |
| 1:02.0 | But what do we have left once we have banned in the lie? |
| 1:06.0 | Chaos. A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all. |
| 1:13.3 | Chaos isn't a pit. |
| 1:16.2 | Chaos is a ladder. |
| 1:24.5 | Why, hello again. I'm Dave Gonzalez, and I have not read any of the books in George R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. |
| 1:28.6 | And I'm Neil Miller, and I've read all of those books, including The Hedge Knight, a short story by George R. Martin. And welcome back to a storm of spoilers, Westrose |
| 1:37.0 | edition of course. Just a reminder, we are going to be covering every episode of a night of a Seven Kingdoms here on a Storm of Spoilers. |
| 1:47.0 | So join us for new episodes every Monday in the afternoons of those Monday. |
| 1:52.0 | Neil and I have to process, sleep off all of our mead. |
| 1:56.1 | It's been a rough tourney on Sunday nights. |
| 1:58.2 | So we have to, you know, get up, start the day anew. |
| 2:01.4 | Lots of dancing. |
| 2:02.2 | If, absolutely, if you would like to get in touch with the show, you could email us at |
| 2:07.6 | Storm of Spoilers at gmail.com. Please continue to send us your pitches for corners as we get |
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