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The reviews are in for HBO’s highly anticipated House of the Dragon.

The review embargo was lifted Friday for the notable Game of Thrones prequel and its initial notices are largely positive, with critics calling the fantasy drama “a magical miracle” and a worthy successor to the original series, which became the most Emmy-winning drama of all time. Yet, there are also several mixed reviews, and at least one outright negative take that declared the prequel has “uniformly dull” characters.

Here are key excerpts from some of the most prominent early reviews.

The Guardian called the show a “roaring success” and wrote, “House of the Dragon looks set fair to become the game of political seven-dimensional chess that its predecessor was, designed to reward diehard fantasy fans in full measure without alienating the masses that will propel it to the top of the ratings … In short,...