You know when somebody is really, really, really trying hard to convince you of something? Really, super-special-extra hard? Well, read this quote from Amazon MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke from her latest interview with Variety. She was asked about the viewing figures for the second season of The Rings Of Power and she said:
“Over 70 million people at this point have engaged since Season 2 launched, and if you look at the long-term trajectory, which is how this company looks at an asset like that, this is a long-term investment in that franchise… There’s well over 100 million viewers watching and engaging with the show. So I feel really good. I think we all do.”
Sure Jen. So how about a third season then?
“[That] commitment is never the thing that’s driving what we’re doing. We’ll continue to make the show as long as we see global customers loving it and watching it to the point where – it is a business. Obviously, we need a large amount of people showing up. And there are a large amount of people, so there’s no debate about whether or not the show will continue.”
Showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay think they are getting a third season so one feels inevitable. There was always apparently a plan for 50 hours of show under this title.
Set thousands of years before the events of the novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Rings Of Power is based on the author’s own history of Middle-earth.
It begins during a time of relative peace and covers 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.
The second season continued to get the negative feedback the first season received from fans of the original works. This season, infamously, decided to fill out the backstory of the Orcs, giving them families and making them caring parents and devoted spouses.
There isn’t really much more you can say.