Why Knight of the Seven Kingdoms succeeds where The Mandalorian falls short

With A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, author George R.R. Martin builds an entire series around one of the most iconic templates from his Game of Thrones series: Arya and The Hound’s lone wolf-and-cub dynamic. The prequel novella The Hedge Knight and its new HBO adaptation follow Ser Dunk the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his squire Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) as they stumble through misadventures and wrestle with what it truly means to be a great knight in a corrupt Westeros.