As the fantasy prequels reach half-time, HBO’s family drama trumps Amazon’s Tolkien gamble
dominated online conversation from 2011-2019, sparking breathless reactions to the show’s unending drama. Even when it was bad, especially when it was bad, people couldn’t stop talking about it. While launching a follow-up brings its own difficulties , the internet was primed to rejoin Westeros. Just enough time had passed since that widely-hated final season for viewers to welcome its prequelfeels nostalgic, like remembering a long-lost in-joke..
, is big. Very big. Some might venture too big. Each episode, we’re spun through the Southlands , Khazad-dûm , Lindon and wherever the Irish-accented hobbits scurry about. It’s frequently stunning, but also unwieldy. It’s simply not that compelling to watch a sprawling cast in isolation;Amazon Studios, it follows the peroxide blonde, borderline insane Targaryens as their rule over Westeros begins to disintegrate.
It’s not much of a surprise that HBO, a well-established network, knew what it was doing right out the gate. HBO has crafted a show for maximum online chatter: there is sex (
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