A review of the premiere of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, "The Hedge Knight" — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as I rise to the level of a comment sad...
Appropriately enough for the beginning of a series with one large hero and one small hero, both a lot and a little happens within the 42-minute running time of "The Hedge Knight." It's the longest episode of a season where most of the others hover around a half-hour, simply because there's more set-up required up front about who Dunk is, what he's trying to accomplish, and which enemies and allies he may be making along the way.
Mostly, though, it's a fairly simple, straightforward beginning for a simple, straightforward show, whose smallness stands in direct contrast to the structure of the two previous series set in and around Westeros. Dunk has to accomplish many tasks before he can fully live up to his titular role, and we see him checking as many of them off as he can over the course of the premiere.