HBO’s “House of the Dragon” drew nearly 10 million viewers in the U.S. during its Sunday night debut and briefly led the HBO Max streaming platform to crash for some users, in another sign of the interest in the prequel to “Game of Thrones.”

The audience was the largest in HBO’s history for the debut of a new series, the network said.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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