‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Finale Recap: Dunk and Egg’s New Adventure
The finale that perfectly blends legacy and levity in the world of Westeros
If Game of Thrones taught us anything, it’s that the gods rarely spare anyone without reason. And if A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has proven anything in its six short episodes, it’s that mercy often carries a heavier weight than death.
Season 1 Episode 6, “The Morrow,” closes the chapter not with heightened spectacle or brutality, but with sorrow and the quiet hope of a beginning that may prove greater than the melancholy of today.
If you missed my full season review, you can read it here before digging into the finale below.
Here are the Cliff Notes:
“The Morrow” finds citizens mourning Baelor in a farewell that lingers like smoke from a flame
Lionel invites Dunk to move to Storm’s End, but Dunk believes he’s bad luck
Maekar offers Dunk a place at Summerhall and the opportunity for Egg to squire for him there
Dunk declines the offer due to feeling unworthy and Egg overhears
That’s the shell of the episode, and it barely scratches the surface of what A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms delivered in its finale.
A broken, bruised, and battered Dunk wanders around questioning why the gods deemed him worthy of living—this question looming over the entire finale like a dense fog.
Baelor is gone.
Aerion is being sent to the Free Cities to atone.
And whispers begin to take shape, following both Dunk and Maekar—it should have been them who had taken Baelor’s place.
But there is something quietly devastating about Dunk and Maekar bonding over the shared loss and unfortunate fallout of Baelor’s death. They are not friends, nor are they quite allies. But grief levels the playing field in ways that status and politics never can.
For all its violence and heartbreak, the relationship between Dunk and Egg remains the bright shining light of the entire series.
To say A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms hit the casting jackpot with Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell is an understatement. Their chemistry is effortless. From the scene in Episode 1 to their final scene in the finale, through them the show is able to weave comedy, charisma, and charm into what could have otherwise been a relentless tragedy.
And tragedy often befalls even the most innocent of Westeros, which makes Daeron’s plea to Dunk to mentor Egg feel less like an ask and more like a prophecy.
The most powerful scene of the finale belongs to Egg.
At the discovery of his hair regrowing, Egg feels the pull back into a life he vehemently detests—one he associates with the atrocities of his brother Aerion. He takes his knife and enters his brother’s bedroom, tears in his eyes, ready to make a decision that will alter the course of his life.
It’s a heartbreaking display of how circumstances and environment can turn even the most innocent into monsters, whether they want to change or not. His father, Maekar, sits in the room (unbeknownst to him at first) and watches as his youngest son sits on the precipice of taking out another. Instead of scolding, he provides comfort—understanding Egg’s fury, yet torn between his love and devotion to both of his children.
It is restraint. It is grief. It is the ugly horror of legacy.
When Dunk says farewell to Ashford, it marks not an end, but the beginning of a new adventure. As Egg accompanies him, the calm is the kind of full-circle storytelling that feels gentle and well-earned.
Egg and Dunk bickering about the number of kingdoms is the perfect summation of what we love about this show. Even in sorrow, there is humor. And even in the wake of uncertainty, there is friendship.
The image of Dunk’s mentor walking beside him provides both Dunk and the audience the reassurance that his new journey signals growth, and his grief finally finds a place to rest within him rather than anchoring him to a past he’s outgrown.
Just as we ready ourselves for a hope-filled farewell, we discover that Maekar never changed his mind about the conditions in which he would allow Egg to be Dunk’s squire. Once again, Egg fell to Dunk’s side on his own accord in full Egg fashion.
And the final scene? A king yelling, "Where the f@!* is he?!”
We couldn’t have asked for a better cliffhanger.
All six episodes of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms are available to stream now on HBO and HBO Max. Check out a preview from the finale below.