'House of the Dragon’ Season 3, Episode 8 Deep Dive artwork

'House of the Dragon’ Season 3, Episode 8 Deep Dive

House of R

August 12, 2026

Mal and Jo are back to dive deep into the ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 finale, "The Treasons at Tumbleton." They discuss everything that happened at the Battle of Tumbleton, Rhaenyra’s many mistakes, Alys’s new backstory, and more!
Speakers: Mallory Rubin, Joanna Robinson

Topics: TV & Film

**Mallory Rubin** (0:05)
Greetings, and welcome to House of R, a ringer-verse podcast on the Ringer Podcast Network.
I'm Mallory Rubin. Joining me today, half-cooked, but still fit to rule, or so she thinks, it's Joanna Robinson.

**Joanna Robinson** (0:23)
Half-cooked is generous, I would say.
I think we're fully cooked here on the House of R pod. That's right.

**Mallory Rubin** (0:29)
Aegon half-cooked, we're fully cooked. Jo, we are here, of course, to dive deep profoundly into The Treasons at Tumbleton, the Season 3 finale, unbelievable, of House of the Dragon, and we will dive into all of that right after this.

**Joanna Robinson** (0:48)
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**Mallory Rubin** (0:51)
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**Mallory Rubin** (3:05)
All right, as usual, that was a crock of shit. We're not diving right into it. We're going to do Programming Reminders first. Here they are. Listen, we usually look ahead for Programming Reminders, but we're going to look back for a second because we want to make sure you know, in addition to doing Talk the Thrones live on Sunday night with CR, which was a blast. Check that out if you haven't yet. We had the pleasure of chatting with House of the Dragon showrunner and co-creator Ryan Condal. He joined us for nearly an hour to talk about the season finale, season three, the series to date, adapting this text. That dropped on Monday. That's already up waiting for you, so check that out if you haven't yet. Here's what's coming next.
Lanterns premiere. Can't wait. Genuinely can't wait.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:45)
Everyone around the office is buzzing about the first episode of Lanterns.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:49)
I thought it was delightful.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:50)
I'm excited to talk about it. I was just talking to Midnight Boys about it.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:54)
I'm excited to talk about it. We will probably also have some, we think, X-Men news, Marvel news because who knows, but we're going to D23. The plan is to try to go to D23, so I've never been. That'll be a first for me, not a first for you, but my made in D23 voyage, so hopefully we'll have some exciting Marvel news to catch up on as well at the top of next week. Then we're going to be on the road, the back half of next week, because we're going to Baltimore. We are going to my homeland.

**Joanna Robinson** (4:20)
I'm not enough of on the road. Now we're going to Baltimore.

**Mallory Rubin** (4:22)
I will say, it looks like it's going to be a two to two and a half hour drive on Friday in Rochelle.

**Joanna Robinson** (4:26)
We're driving down ideal. Hopefully, I will make it to this panel. Yeah. I'll save a seat for you.

**Mallory Rubin** (4:32)
We'll be in Baltimore for House of R Night at Camden Yards.

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