Season 2 of Rings of Power is strong. Cinematography is great, the acting is solid and the narrative and themes feel true to Tolkien, even when it colored outside the lines of his legendarium. Especially impressed the dynamic of Sauron and Celebrimbor.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 22, 2024

The series offers an immersive plot and elevates the visual quality with battle scenes reminiscent of the most iconic moments of the Peter Jackson trilogies. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 19, 2024

While it takes a while for all the threads to come together, the narrative eventually leads the viewer to thrillingly executed battle sequences.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 7, 2024

There is a complete absence of vision alongside a dearth of passion that eats away at one’s soul as one watches.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 7, 2024

Yet if this can feel like a series almost drunk on its budget and running time, there is still the intimate, twisted dance of Sauron and Celebrimbor (Edwards really is superb here).

Full Review | Sep 20, 2024

As a huge Lord of the Rings fan I desperately wanted to enjoy the Rings of Power, but it's a struggle to keep up even for diehard fans.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024

The episodes manage to feel both overlong and cramped. So much has been added to pad out the show’s trajectory and provide tonal suspense to an epic that fundamentally doesn’t need it.

Full Review | Sep 13, 2024

Season 2 hits the ground running & has fun developing main characters even deeper and executing amazing battle sequences. Charlie Vickers as Sauron is a big standout in a darker, meaner & superior season. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2024

Season 1 of The Rings of Power taught you the game; season 2 is the game playing you. It’s immersive and complex and that’s what makes it epic.

Full Review | Sep 11, 2024

I’m not sure there’s enough here to convince viewers to return to the series but The Rings of Power still offers proper high fantasy to those craving it.

Full Review | Sep 9, 2024

This isn’t Lord of the Rings in any way shape or form. It’s just Amazon buying the rights to little fragments of it, and jampacking and piecemealing it into a form that apes, badly, hideously, carelessly, Tolkien’s legendarium.

Full Review | Sep 5, 2024

It’s all still frequently irritating but that could be my personal problem with the priggish, snooty elves -- must they or-aaa-te as if every line of dialogue were inscribed on stained glass? That aside, this second outing is a marked improvement.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2024

The Rings of Power is rich in certain aspects. It’s clear that the showrunners are dedicated to bringing Tolkien’s world to life. However, the series still suffers from uneven pacing due to the ensemble of underdeveloped characters.

Full Review | Sep 2, 2024

However, when we aren’t working through storylines directly impacted by Sauron in the moment, the story feels stagnant and less impactful than when he’s on the screen – or responsible for the horrors being unleashed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.2/5 | Sep 1, 2024

For now, Rings of Power is stuck in a predicament not unlike Middle-earth as Sauron amasses power, where even the best intentions might not be enough to prevent a doomed future.

Full Review | Aug 31, 2024

Rings of Power relishes the challenge, finding the pockets of hope that define Lord of the Rings‘ timeless appeal amid the darkness...

Full Review | Aug 30, 2024

In its sophomore season, the epic Middle Earth series ditches the growing pains of its debut and sharpens its blade, slicing through the noise with a streamlined focus on Sauron’s Machiavellian schemings.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2024

What it has all around is a clearer, slightly leaner feel than the overstuffed first season.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2024

The Rings of Power dives deeper into the malice and hatred of Sauron. Yet the series wisely does not posit its figurehead is solely responsible for a societal rot, playing on the fears and movements occurring across Middle-Earth.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 30, 2024

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power ups the ante in Season 2, but still takes its time to explore various sets of characters.

Full Review | Aug 29, 2024