A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Creator: Ira Parker Cast: Peter Claffey, Dexter Sol Ansell, Daniel Ings, Shaun Thomas, Tanzyn Crawford, Danny Webb, Henry Ashton, Sam Spruell, Finn Bennett, Bertie Carvel Rating: ★★★★.5 Minus that final season (which we shall not talk about from hereon), Game of Thrones really set the standard for world-building in the fantasy genre on television. Since then, a Lord of the Rings spinoff, The Wheel of Time, and even House of the Dragon fell short. The mistake all of them made was that in going bigger and grander, they sacrificed what truly makes fantasy click – the characters and their motivations. The Lord of the Rings was never about how grand Mount Doom looked or which Balrog was scarier. It worked because we connected with Frodo. Harry Potter became a fan-favourite not because WB filled it with Oscar winners and spent hundreds of millions on VFX, but because the audience resonated with the original trio. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms review: Peter Claffey, Dexter Sol Ansell shine in this …