The Wheel of Time

The result is a show that satisfyingly deals more in intimate moments rather than overly relying on big action set pieces or CGI'd mythical creatures to conjure excitement. ... Like any good fantasy epic, The Wheel of Time is one that promises very impressive returns, provided audiences are willing to settle in for the long haul.

There's a lot to keep up with, but for those willing to put their phones aside, Season 3 cements The Wheel Of Time as one of the best fantasy shows on TV right now. 

It instead serves up a vast tableaux of plucky heroes and heroines, homicidal wizards and curly-haired ogres. Game of Thrones buffs may very well be devastated by the lack of nudity/ incest/ Kit Harington looking sad. For everyone else this fantasy saga has the potential to cast a spell entirely of its own devising.

Episode 4 ends on a major cliffhanger that indicates things are poised to kick up several notches once the back half of season 2 begins rolling out, and it’s to the immense credit of the creative team that anybody with even a passing interest in The Wheel of Time will be desperate to see how it all shakes out.

This time around, the expansions of this world come off like a ticked-off checklist, an assuage-the-readers inventory of settings, cultures, and villains, with our hero’s journey feeling certainly designed but not entirely earned. Rand’s story can either save this world or break it—and right now, The Wheel Of Time has a few spokes loose.

It's those conversations, and the nagging feeling these conversations aren’t going anywhere interesting, hamper any momentum “The Wheel of Time” wishes to build. Even at the end of the four episodes provided for review, the characters still seem like they’re licking their wounds from the first season, the writers shuffling characters from place to place in a kind of narrative fantasy limbo.

It’s a show that is so serious in terms of tone and dialogue as to verge on parody. There’s so little personality here, which is a hole into which almost all of the mediocre “Game of Thrones” riffs fall.

I absolutely love the series. I recommend this to anyone who loves fantasy, drama, love and action!!!!!

Never read the books but this felt like Soap TV that calls itself wheel of time. What a waste of the potentially well developed world.

I love fantasy and that is probably the only reason I gave such a high score to this. It's characters are okay, but kinda confusing and the plot is decent. Everything in this series is mediocre.

The show is a sad pathetic adaptation. The writers are more concerned with being activists than making a good show. It means nothing anymore to be a writer in Hollywood. Anybody can do it now.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]