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Shows Like A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms to Watch Next
By Jordan A. · · 6 min read
Westeros is dark again. House of the Dragon wrapped its third season on August 9, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms only gave us six episodes back in January before disappearing until 2027. So you've got a hedge knight, a bald kid, one horse, and a long wait.
The interesting thing is that the small show is the one people won't stop talking about. Dunk and Egg got a surprise Outstanding Drama Series nomination this year, sitting in a category with The Pitt, Pluribus and Slow Horses. Not bad for a series where the biggest set piece is a trial by seven and nobody rides a dragon anywhere.
Why the small one worked
Peter Claffey plays Ser Duncan the Tall as a large, decent man who is constantly, visibly out of his depth, and Dexter Sol Ansell plays Egg as a child who knows exactly how much trouble he's worth. That's it. That's the show. Two people walking, arguing about money, and running into a world that keeps proving it doesn't care about either of them.
Six episodes, weekly on HBO and HBO Max from January 18, adapting George R.R. Martin's novella The Hedge Knight. It landed in the mid-nineties on Rotten Tomatoes and it did that without a single scene of a war council staring at a map. The lesson bigger fantasy keeps refusing to learn is that scale is not the same as stakes. So the recommendations below are not "more dragons." They're shows built the same way.
A mismatched pair and a long road
The Mandalorian is the obvious structural cousin and it earns the comparison. A taciturn fighter, a small ward he didn't ask for, an episodic road that keeps handing them jobs. Season one and season two are the good ones. Watch how often the emotional beat lands in a silence rather than a line, because that's the exact trick Claffey and Ansell are doing.
The Last of Us takes the same shape and drags it through grief. Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey travel across a wrecked America, and the show is at its best in the one-off episodes where they meet somebody and the meeting goes badly. Season one, episode three is the finest hour of television HBO has made this decade.
Firefly is fourteen episodes and a movie, and it holds up because Joss Whedon's crew are broke. That's the connective thread with Dunk: people who take bad jobs because the alternative is starving. The dialogue has aged in places. The character work hasn't.
Medieval drama, no magic required
Wolf Hall is what happens when you make a political thriller out of nothing but rooms and rank. Mark Rylance plays Thomas Cromwell as a man doing arithmetic on everyone he meets, and the sequel series, The Mirror and the Light, is even better than the first. Candlelit and quietly ruthless.
The Last Kingdom gives you five seasons of Uhtred of Bebbanburg getting extremely close to what he wants and then losing it, which is the most Westeros thing possible without Westeros. It's more swords and less subtext than Knight, but the mud is right.
The Pillars of the Earth is an eight-part adaptation of the Ken Follett novel about building a cathedral in twelfth-century England. Ian McShane is in it, being McShane. If the appeal of Dunk's world to you is the sense that ordinary people are grinding through history while the nobles play, this is your show.
Black Sails is the underrated one. Four seasons of pirates in Nassau that starts as a Treasure Island prequel and turns into a genuinely serious drama about empire and money. Season one is a slog for about four episodes. Push through. It becomes something remarkable.
Genre TV that trusts its audience
Andor is the best argument in years that a franchise show can just be a good drama. No chosen ones, no cameos winking at you, and a prison arc in the first season that stands beside anything on prestige TV. Two seasons, and the ending it was always building toward.
Shogun won a pile of Emmys for a reason: it's a political drama where every conversation has three meanings, and it never once stops to explain itself to you. Same faith in the viewer that makes Knight feel grown up.
The Terror season one takes the doomed Franklin expedition and turns it into slow, freezing dread with a creature at the edges. Ciarán Hinds and Jared Harris are outstanding. It's the closest any show has come to the specific feeling of the last two Knight episodes, where the polite rules stop protecting anyone.
If you do want the bigger fantasy swing after all that, The Rings of Power looks incredible and improved substantially in season two, and The Wheel of Time found its footing right before Prime pulled the plug. Neither has Knight's discipline, but both have a lot of world.
If you want more Westeros right now
House of the Dragon's third season ran eight episodes from June and finished August 9, with a fourth and final season already greenlit. That's your only new Westeros for a while. Both our House of the Dragon follow-ups and the broader Game of Thrones list go deeper on that side of the map.
The other move is the books. Martin's Dunk and Egg novellas are short, funny and self-contained, and season two adapts The Sworn Sword, which is a drought, a dam and a grudge. Reading it now means you'll spend all of 2027 watching people who haven't read it be surprised.
Where everything streams, and when season two lands
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, House of the Dragon and The Last of Us are all on HBO Max. The Mandalorian and Andor are on Disney+. The Last Kingdom is on Netflix, Shogun is on Hulu, and The Rings of Power and The Wheel of Time are on Prime Video. Wolf Hall, Black Sails, The Terror and The Pillars of the Earth move between services and free ad-supported tiers, so search before you plan an evening around one. TheWrap's release guide has the full season one schedule if you're catching up, and HBO renewed the show for a second season that's expected in 2027. Filming started in December, so the wait is real but it's not a mystery.
For more in this general direction, our best HBO shows of 2026 covers what else is worth your subscription while you wait.
Eleven shows across six services is exactly the problem BingeNext's TV recommendation engine exists to solve. Tell it Dunk and Egg worked for you, tell it what else you've liked, and it'll rank the options on the services you already have instead of the ones you don't.
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About the author
Jordan A., Founder, BingeNext
Jordan A. is the founder of BingeNext and writes every guide on this site. He built the recommendation engine after one too many nights lost to the streaming menu, and he still tests every pick the hard way: by watching it.