I was so hopeful that a good fantasy show, and a Tolkien fantasy at that, was going to be a series - and such a fantastic story premise of the origin of the rings of power.
Hope quickly diminishes to boredom after just a few episodes as this show moves at a glacial pace.
There are so many problems with this that it's hard to know what to criticize first, for a multi-BILLION dollar production.
First I have to say that the production value of this show is amazing, absolutely amazing. The special effects are at least as good as the movies and you really feel like the show takes you to a different world entirely. Based on the rest of the show, 95% of their budget was special effects, 5% everything else - and it shows.
One big problem is casting people for the sake of "diversity", where they were cast for their skin tone rather than their acting ability or probability of bringing a fantasy character to life, and it was important to Amazon, apparently, that only actors of color were central characters and everyone else is a supporting role. Don't get me wrong, I think having people of color in the show is a good thing, but do it for the right reasons. Ismael Cruz Córdova as Arondir, the elf, is one such miscast. There's just nothing right about him as this character, he is very out of place. Perhaps as a human he would be fine, but as an elf he's just not believable.
Elves, in general, are just wrong in this show. Elves should have long hair and slim features but this show has them all over the map with anything from long hair to buzz cuts and weird eyes. Whoever thought Robert Aramayo is even similar to the book character of Elrond, let alone the stellar version of Elrond that Hugo Weaving gave us is just on serious crack. Elrond in this is just a douche, both in looks and in personality, not the elf hero by any means.
The Harfoot (pre-hobbits) are just silly to a fault. They all act like their brain is the size of a pea, and not the proud characters they are in the books and movies. They are caricatures of hobbits, meant to introduce some light hearted semi-humor into a serious show, but they fall flat and just come off as retarded. While the entire show feels this way, the Harfoot just feel like they are on a stage in a play - the actors have the same over exaggeration of their movements and very "play like" acting, which is probably where they found much of the cast.
Dwarves are similarly disparaged in this show as the Harfoot are, they all act like they have an IQ of 2.
Don't watch this show for the story, you'll be disappointed, but if you watch it for the CGI and to be in a world that resembles the one that Tolkien invented (but it is not really) then you might get into it.
Jesus this show is so pathetic is painful to watch. Every 10 minutes people falling to 10 IQ and commit dumb shit just to keep the story going. Sadly can't rate it 0/10
absolutely plasticky the main “character”, the worst acting I ever seen
Catherine and Peter had more chemistry in that one scene in which he tongued her than Catherine and Leo had in all their scenes together combined
It is insane this show is not more popular. This was a FUCKING TREAT to watch. Holy shit, what a great job everyone did on this.
Edit: They've kept the quality up for all 3 seasons. This is such a fun show to watch, and I bet they've had fun doing all the crazy stuff in it. Hopefully they do more, but I'd also kinda want them not to milk it too much.
This show has me binge watching like crazy. Once you start you can't stop, I need to know what happens next!
Watched the first episode of this show, and it was very difficult to follow, very scattered and almost made no sense most of the time. Really weird cross between a spaghetti western, black / white warring set in our time. Too weird for me.
That one episode is enough for me to drop it, normally I give even the worst shows 2-3 episodes. Too many other, good, entertaining stuff to watch.
Well .. I will stop watching it after 4 episodes
Really? It is very boring show .. I cant imagine this show is producted by HBO .. Garbage
garbage don't waste your time
For such a small timing it is very difficult to bring a new idea to the viewer. No episode is no exception. The series - a mixture of vague statements and banal scenes. Nothing new, these works did not give me personally.
Wow, I almost gave up after episode 2. So glad I didn’t. This turned out to be a great series and a very clever take on this type of plot. Final episode is great.
The best way to describe this series is - boring and utterly annoying. The characters are pretentious and silly, not in a funny way of silly but in a more "fuck, I would punch that in the face" kind of silly. Shitty finale and all. Omg, I wish I didn't have the OCD which makes me finish every book, movie or series once I've started watching them. This was an utter waste of time. Can't understand why all the critics are jumping on the bandwagon claiming this is a good series and shit.
In my opinion one of the worst TV shows ever made. I just cant watch the whole serie without yawning and falling asleep. Its just simply boring. 4/10 (for the sex and nude scenes)
