The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power (Season 1)

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What Is It?

The most expensive TV show ever made, maybe 1 billion dollars, the 2022 Amazon Prime Video American fantasy TV show The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power (Season 1).

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This is how Wikipedia describes this record-breaking money wasting disappointing TV show:

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is an American fantasy television series based on the novel The Lord of the Rings and its appendices by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Developed by showrunners J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video, the series is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

It is produced by Amazon Studios in cooperation with HarperCollins and New Line Cinema, and in consultation with the Tolkien Estate.

Amazon bought the television rights for The Lord of the Rings in November 2017, making a five-season production commitment worth at least US$1 billion.

This would make it the most expensive television series ever made.

Payne and McKay were hired in July 2018.

The series is primarily based on the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, which include discussion of the Second Age, and Tolkien’s grandson Simon Tolkien was consulted on the development of the series.

Per the requirements of Amazon’s deal with the Tolkien Estate, it is not a continuation of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies.

Despite this, the production intended to evoke the films using similar production design, younger versions of characters from the films, and a main theme by Howard Shore, who composed the music for both trilogies.

Bear McCreary composed the series score.

A large international cast was hired, and filming for the eight-episode first season took place in New Zealand, where the films were produced, from February 2020 to August 2021 (with a production break for the COVID-19 pandemic).

Amazon moved production for future seasons to the United Kingdom, where filming for the second season began on October 3, 2022.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premiered on September 1, 2022, with the first two episodes, which Amazon stated had the most viewers for a Prime Video premiere.

The rest of the eight-episode first season ran until October 14.

It has received generally positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for its cinematography, visuals and musical score, but some criticism for its pacing and characterization.

Set thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the series is based on author J. R. R. Tolkien‘s history of Middle-earth.

It begins during a time of relative peace and covers all the major events of Middle-earth’s Second Age: the forging of the Rings of Power, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the fall of the island kingdom of Númenor, and the last alliance between Elves and Men.^[1]

These events take place over thousands of years in Tolkien’s original stories, but are condensed for the series.^[2]

The Boys (Season 3)

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What Is It?

The 2022 superhero TV show The Boys (Season 3).

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Here is how Wikipedia describes this TV show:

The third season of the American superhero television series The Boys, the first series in the franchise based on the comic book series of the same name written by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, was developed for television by American writer and television producer Eric Kripke. The season is produced by Sony Pictures Television in association with Point Grey Pictures, Original Film, Kripke Enterprises, Kickstart Entertainment and KFL Nightsky Productions.

The show’s third season stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit and Jensen Ackles. Taking place a year after the events of the previous season, the story follows the titular Boys now working for Victoria Neuman’s Bureau of Superhero Affairs to apprehend problematic Supes, having been at peace with the Seven. However, the conflict is resumed once Butcher begins to investigate the truth about the apparent death of Soldier Boy, one of Vought’s first American superheroes, with the hope of killing Homelander for good. Meanwhile, Homelander’s mental stability begins to deteriorate as Vought attempts to restrict his power, while other Seven members such as Starlight and Queen Maeve assist the Boys in their plots against him.

The season was announced ahead of the second-season premiere, on July 23, 2020, at the aftershow hosted by Aisha Tyler for the 2020 San Diego Comic-Con@Home. The show is being released in a weekly basis on streaming service Amazon Prime Video, premiering its first three episodes on June 3, 2022, while the rest going to run until July 8, 2022. The season has received largely positive reviews from critics with praise for the screenplay, black humor, action sequences, character development, storyline, and performances, particularly Urban, Starr, and Ackles. On June 10, 2022, the series was renewed for a fourth season.^[1]

The Boys Presents: Diabolical (Season 1)

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What Is It?

The 2022 American adult animated superhero anthology TV show The Boys Presents: Diabolical (Season 1).

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This is how Wikipedia describes this animated anthology TV show:

The Boys Presents: Diabolical is an American adult animated superhero anthology series that premiered on Amazon Prime Video on March 4, 2022. The series is based on the comic book series The Boys by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, and serves as a spin-off of the television series of the same name. The anthology series was released in eight episodes, each using its own animation style.

The series received critical acclaim upon release with praise going to the animation, voice acting, writing, humor and themes.

A series of animated shorts telling side stories in the universe of The Boys using various animation styles.

The Boys (Season 2)

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What is it?

The 2020 Amazon Prime Video superhero web TV show The Boys (Season 2).

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Beyond The Spectrum: Being Taken

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Beyond the Spectrum: Being Taken (2018)

What is it?

The 2018 documentary film Beyond The Spectrum: Being Taken.

Beyond The Spectrum – Being Taken

Beyond The Spectrum – Being Taken

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Beyond the Spectrum Being Taken

What is it about?

This is how Amazon Prime Video describes this documentary film:

Explore the rich and detailed history of supposed alien abductions and the most credible cases from a whole new perspective.

Taking into account the history of supposed extraterrestrial visitation as a whole, this documentary provides sound arguments that alien abduction cannot be explained away by things like sleep paralysis and may actually be happening as abductees say it is.