Inverse - ⚔️ ‘Rings of Power’ Returns

For all its big ideas, The Rings of Power’s first season felt more like a preamble — a promise of adventure to come, rather than a true starting point. The Lord of the Rings prequel worked hard to introduce a myriad of characters, setting the board for the arrival of the saga’s fabled Big Bad, Sauron. Its first eight episodes ran on the idea that the Dark Lord was hidden somewhere among our noble — if conflicted — heroes. And it wasn’t until the finale that Halbrand (Charlie Vickers), the resident charming rogue, came out as Sauron in disguise.

Following that bombshell, Season 2 hits the ground running to deliver what its first was missing: a true villain to root against. It also briefly reorients the series around Sauron’s twisted quest for total domination, framing him almost as a protagonist. We enter Sauron’s mind, come to understand his motives, and watch as his influence changes the very fabric of Middle-earth. That pitches the series in a delightfully dark direction; our disparate heroes are that much closer to uniting under a common goal. For all its promising developments, however, something may still be missing — and that nagging feeling does threaten to tear the series asunder just as it needs to find its footing.

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