![]() Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. Something is missing here, and I hope future seasons can find it.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. But The Rings of Power seems almost cursed by its sprawling, greenlit 40 hour arc, four times the length of the entire original LOTR trilogy, which I also imagine would not have been nearly as good if it was bloated and stretched that much. Anderson 2 and the fourth and fifth seasons are hosted by Josh Levin and Noreen Malone, respectively. The first two seasons of the podcast are hosted by Leon Neyfakh 1 the third and sixth seasons of the show are hosted by Joel D. The last two episodes of this season are available only to Slate Plus subscribers. I’m reminded of one of my favorite series, The Expanse, which struggled with early adaptation issues and pacing in season 1, but blossomed into becoming an all-time great sci-fi series in later seasons. Slow Burn is a narrative podcast produced by Slate Plus, a division of Slate. In the final episode of Slow Burn’s first season, Leon Neyfakh assesses the president’s desperate final campaign to save himselfand the people and institutions that finally brought him down. This is not to say Rings of Power can’t improve over time. ![]() ![]() Last week, for instance, we saw close to zero movement across almost all the major storylines, and that’s not the first time that’s happened. There are many positive adjectives I’d use to describe Rings of Power, gorgeous, detailed, well-cast, but “gripping” is not one of them right now. Since we have no real choice but to compare it to its current rival, House of the Dragon, I’d argue that series understands what it takes to be a TV show that is technically both a slow burn, we can see long-simmering conflicts about who will take the throne and a rivalry between former best friends, but also a show that knows how to make gripping episodes week-to-week. ![]()
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