Hail Matt Smith, Sexy Evil Crimes House of the Dragon Hottie

In the court docket of io9 I too am responsible of discovering Daemon Targaryen himself, Matt Smith, surprisingly enticing. For me it occurred someplace between Last Night in Soho and his dancing sequence in Morbius. Maybe there have been hints of it in The Crown however by no means actually occurred to me when he was the Eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who. Handsome and earnest, sure. Hottie? Not till he entered his villain period.

Sure, it’s distressing for House of the Dragon government producer and author Sarah Hess that Smith has turn into the web’s boyfriend for causes wholly completely different than throughout his Doctor Who period. She informed the Hollywood Reporter, “Not that Matt isn’t incredibly charismatic and wonderful, and he’s incredible in the role. But Daemon himself… I don’t want him to be my boyfriend! I’m a little baffled how they’re all, ‘Oh, daddy!’ And I’m just like: ‘Really?’ How—in what way—was he a good partner, father or brother—to anybody? You got me. He ain’t Paul Rudd.” Respectfully, we disagree.

Smith could finally be on the street to win sexiest man alive (a title Rudd’s gained), regardless of no matter different atrocities Daemon is about to commit. The sheer shock of Smith turning heel appears to be actually doing it for audiences—much more particularly, the method during which his performing prowess took his dark-haired main man appears to be like and shifted right into a dementedly charming white-haired prince, who needs to be by all counts irredeemable. He killed his spouse however by the point he singlehandedly slayed a military and Crabfeeder all of us however forgot.

And but he’s what web slang calls a “Babygirl Meow Meow” to repair (not severely, I hope). Smith has gone from a goody-goody, fish-fingers-and-custard-consuming time-touring hero with a TARDIS to a finger-reducing maniac who stomps by human custard for his household’s identify on a dragon. The solely competitors he’s bought is fellow catastrophe bi Lestat from Interview with the Vampire.

Excuse the cringe, however he’s BAE-mon Targaryen now. He’s so dangerous it’s sick and we are able to’t get sufficient of it.

House of the Dragon airs Sunday on HBO and streams on HBO Max.

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