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Like the novella\u00a0upon which it was based,\u00a0The Hedge Knight, written by Martin in 1998\u00a0and beginning\u00a0his\u00a0\u2018Tales\u00a0Of\u00a0Dunk\u00a0And\u00a0Egg\u2019\u00a0series, this show offers a markedly different vibe to the franchise\u2019s flagship. Where the main\u00a0Game Of\u00a0Thrones\u00a0series and sister show\u00a0House\u00a0Of\u00a0The\u00a0Dragon<\/a>\u00a0were\u00a0preoccupied with royals and aristocrats,\u00a0A Knight\u00a0Of\u00a0The\u00a0Seven Kingdoms\u00a0centres a lowborn\u00a0knight, its tone and feel correspondingly different. This is even reflected in Dan Romer\u2019s folksy-whistly score; Ramin Djawadi\u2019s original theme tune is only briefly deployed, for a brilliantly scatological fake-out in the first episode. (In a valiant commitment to that tonal shift, there is at least one piss,\u00a0shit\u00a0or fart joke per episode.)<\/p>\n \u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0Dunk and Egg\u2019s odd-couple relationship and\u00a0shared green-gilled\u00a0innocence which anchors this low-stakes, high-reward show.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n We first meet Ser Duncan\u00a0The\u00a0Tall (Peter Claffey), a humble hedge knight \u2014 \u201clike a knight, but sadder,\u201d as one character uncharitably puts it \u2014\u00a0burying his late mentor, Ser Arlan of\u00a0Pennytree\u00a0(Danny Webb). Claffey, a former rugby player who only began professional acting three years ago, is marvellous company across these six episodes. A giant oak of a man, \u201cthick as a castle wall\u201d as the books had it, he cuts a formidable frame but plays Dunk\u00a0with suitable sweetness and blue-eyed,\u00a0boyish innocence, earnestly trying to uphold the modest but honourable legacy of his former master.<\/p>\n\n