with so much television to choose from nowadays you have to be really invested in a tv show to stick with it and stop your eyes from wandering elsewhere according to a recent writeup from the hollywood reporter the lord of the rings the rings of power struggled to keep its viewers attention weektoweek with only 45 of people who started it actually making it to the season 1 finalewhile the prequel series which charts the rise of sauron during the second age of middleearth earned a respectable 83 on rotten tomatoes across the rollout of its first chapter it received criticism for its slowmoving plot and the way it tweaked certain details present in j r r tolkiens original works which is presumably why some never finished it in the us only 37 of people watched all the way to the endas it stands prime video has committed to five seasons of rings of power but the streamer could presumably alter this if it could no longer justify the 1 billion it would spend on that long of a run for comparison netflix outings resident evil and first kill were completed by less than 50 of those who started it and have since both been canceled however theres been no indication that this will happen from prime videoteasing season 2 back in october 2022 showrunner jd payne said they want to give sauron the galadriel treatment going forward in terms of delving deep into the characters motivationsseason one opens with who is galadriel where did she come from what did she suffer why is she driven were doing the same thing with sauron in season two well fill in all the missing piecesfellow showrunner patrick mckay added sauron can now just be sauron like tony soprano or walter white hes evil but complexly evil we felt like if we did that in season one hed overshadow everything else so the first season is like batman begins and the the dark knight is the next movie with sauron maneuvering out in the open were really excited season two has a canonical story there may well be viewers who are like this is the story we were hoping to get in season one in season two were giving it to themthe lord of the rings the rings of power season 1 is available to stream on prime video now if fantasys not your thing then check out our guide to the best shows on amazon prime for some viewing inspiration