there is no way this show is 6.9 on imdb.

And even deleting bad scores and reviews and boosting it with farmbots, they only can get the score to 6.9.

You're right. They're generally leftists.

"who probably never read Tolkien and fired the Tolkien expert Tom Shipley"
That's ANOTHER great reason not to watch this complete and utter CRAP FANFICTION!

Tom Shipley was no doubt fired because he represented JRR Tolkien the most accurately in regard to his wishes about how his works should be adapted, but Amazon no doubt said to Shipley, "why should we listen to the words of a guy who's long been bones in the grounds and whom the maggots and worms finished with decades ago, and why the FUCK should we listen to YOU, old FART? GETOUTTAHERE! WE own Lord of the Rings now, not any of you old fogies! We'll fucking write it the way WE want to write it, senile old bastard!"

In other words, incredibly disrespectful to both men.

The costumes are awful.

if you take out the wokeness, this show is a middling medieval fantasy show on the caliber of something like nbc or abc. it's loosely acted and loosely directed. it's terribly cast too. none of the people in it have charisma or any sort of special feature that pulls you in. compare this to something like boardwalk empire where virtually every one cast was extremely interesting. a better example is game of thrones i guess although the casting in that wasnt quite as good.