The Rings of Energy Promise Issues Will Really Occur This Season

The debut season of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy—for those who truly ended up making it via all eight episodes—usually struggled to actually actually really feel there was narrative second outdoors of that one hella cool moment when a mountain blew up. By its climax, it felt like issues had barely just started, regardless of us already being on the finish of the season. That, at the very least, appears to be changing for season two.

Whereas we received our first take a look at Rings of Energy’s return a few days ago, this week Prime Video additionally launched a brand new behind-the-scenes featurette for the brand new season, united in a typical thread from all of the tidbits delivered by the present’s stars: you’ll truly really feel like issues occur this season!

It’s sort of humorous simply how usually everybody goes again to that beat—and acknowledging, in numerous diplomatic methods, that season one was a gradual burn set-up to permit issues to happen this time spherical. Even what we’re proven emphasizes this, with plenty of stunt work, plenty of motion. A number of orcs, plenty of hearth, plenty of orcs on hearth, issues of that nature. The message being despatched could be very clear in its makes an attempt to hook again within the folks who dropped off season one: that is the season that you simply have been in all probability wanting the primary time round, whether or not it’s when it comes to the motion and the scope of all of it, or wanting your eight-episode TV present to really really feel like issues had narratively progressed past “properly, that mountain did blow up and it was extraordinarily sick.”

We’ll discover out whether or not the lengthy highway there and again once more was price it, when Rings of Energy season two begins streaming on Prime Video beginning August 29.

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