It happened again — HBO’s hit series House of the Dragon has been hit with another online leak ahead of its season two finale.
Dozens of clips from the eighth episode, scheduled to premiere on Aug. 4, were illegally uploaded to a new TikTok account Tuesday night, less than a week before the finale was set to drop. ComicBook.com reported that the clips appeared to be captured by someone filming a screen with a secondary device.
The account and videos have since been taken down, however, the clips have already been reshared on TikTok, as well as X (formerly Twitter). ComicBook.com also reported that the videos on the initial TikTok account had more than 100,000 views prior to their removal.
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HBO addressed the leak in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, “We are aware that clips from the House of the Dragon season finale have surfaced across social media platforms. The clips were posted after an unintentional release from an international third-party distributor. HBO is aggressively monitoring and removing clips from the internet, and fans can watch the episode in its entirety this Sunday night on HBO and Max.”
This isn’t the first time the House of the Dragon finale has been leaked online. In 2022, days before the season one finale aired, the episode was illegally made available. At the time, HBO attributed the leak to a distribution partner in Europe, the Middle East or Africa.
“It appears to have originated from a distribution partner in the EMEA region,” a company spokesperson told THR in a statement at the time. “HBO is aggressively monitoring and pulling these copies from the internet.”
A similar situation also happened in 2017, when an episode from season seven of Game of Thrones was illegally uploaded to torrent sites prior to its debut. HBO said that leak was due to a third-party vendor accidentally posting it.
Updated July 31 at 2:03 p.m. PT with HBO’s statement.
