Amazon Studios’ fantasy show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is finally premiering this week, after a lengthy shoot and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on its production. But what do critics think of Amazon’s big-budget TV series?
Reviews have begun to stream in, at least for the first two episodes, and the general consensus is mostly positive. Here at GameSpot, we said in our Rings of Power review that “the elements of something genuinely special are all here…”
GameSpot sister site CNET, meanwhile, said The Rings of Power “makes a steady return to Middle-earth, offering all the things that endeared the originals to so many of us those many years ago: the breathtaking vistas, the latex prosthetics and even the occasional bouts of ponderous dialogue delivered to some point on the horizon.”