A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms gets a new 'in the weeks ahead' trailer — and HBO Max deserves a clout around the ear for how much it spoils
Don't hedge your storytelling bets, HBO...
· TechRadarNews By Tom Power published 19 January 2026
Almost all of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' plot has been ruined by a new trailer (Image credit: HBO Max) Share Share by:
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- HBO has released a new 'in the weeks ahead' trailer for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
- It arrived after the new Game of Thrones TV show's premiere
- The teaser contains some big spoilers for the high fantasy series
A new 'in the weeks ahead' trailer has been unveiled for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (AKotSK) – and I'm genuinely surprised by how much it spoils.
Released by HBO after the show premiered on January 18/19, the two minute-long teaser includes footage from all six of this season's episodes. And, while it doesn't spoil one of the biggest reveals in The Hedge Knight, ie the book that AKoTSK season 1 adapts, the trailer doesn't exactly keep its narrative cards close to its chest.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms | Weeks Ahead Trailer | HBO Max - YouTube
If you decided not to watch the above trailer for spoiler-based reasons, don't worry, I'm not going to describe the footage within in this article. That way, you'll be able to watch the Game of Thrones prequel's plot unfold as each new episode drops – make sure you read my AKotSK episode 1 guide to see when new chapters will be released.
But I digress. Barring a couple of major storytelling moments, it is odd that the plot of the HBO Max TV Original's debut season is basically laid out in full in the latest teaser trailer.
Admittedly, The Hedge Knight isn't a particularly long book. At just 66 pages, the George R.R. Martin-penned novella, which is also the first entry in the acclaimed author's 'Dunk and Egg' literary trilogy, doesn't come close to matching the increasingly gargantuan tomes of Martin's main Game of Thrones book series.
Given how long some of those novels are, there were plenty of story shockers and other big reveals that HBO could withhold from similar trailers indicating what was to come in each of Game of Thrones' seasons. It wasn't necessary, then, to include the biggest ones in such teaser.
Still, while the multi-award-winning US TV network will have wanted to whet viewers' appetite with this AKotSK season 1 trailer, I can't help but think that it didn't need to show, well, half of the footage it does. Based on some of the YouTube comments written underneath this sizzle reel, it seems a few audience members are similarly bemused by how much it spoils, too.
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