House of the Dragon viewers have had themselves some enjoyable watching the Game of Thrones prequel during the last two months. But it isn’t Game of Thrones with out some sort of drama taking place, and forward of this Sunday’s season finale, the episode up and acquired leaked out of nowhere.

Titled “The Black Queen,” streams of the episode hit on-line on Friday, confirmed by varied web sites and social media typically. If you haven’t already, go forward and mute something you’ll be able to, as a result of of us simply won’t give a shit about spoilers. In a press assertion, HBO claimed that the leak was the results of a distribution companion within the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) area unintentionally posting the episode forward of schedule. While reminding viewers that the episode shall be in its greatest 4K high quality on Sunday, the community admitted that it was “disappointed that this unlawful action has disrupted the viewing experience for loyal fans of the show. HBO is aggressively monitoring and pulling these copies from the internet.”

Leaks are nothing new for Game of Thrones, which had loads of them all through its eight-season run. Various measures have been stored to forestall this from taking place, from creating digital-only variations of scripts that self-erase after a scene was filmed to HBO simply not giving advance screeners to press. And even outdoors of that, WB’s had a foul run with leaks currently: the post-credits scene to this weekend’s Black Adam leaked (not that it was exhausting to guess what it will be, actually), as did the story beats to its newly launched superhero sport, Gotham Knights.

If there’s any good that comes out of this, it’s that the leak occurred on Friday and so comparatively near the finale. Two days to keep away from spoilers is dangerous, however not terrible, so hopefully those that watch the present can final that lengthy.

[by way of IGN]

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