Best TV shows, autumn 2022, Culture Whisper
From the epic fantasy prequel The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power to the latest volume in Peter Morgan's royal saga The Crown, starring Imelda Staunton, here's the best of autumn TV.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Prime Video
There’s expensive, and then there’s ridiculous. After Game of Thrones finished, Amazon has coveted a similar fantasy success for its streaming service Prime Video (starting with The Wheel of Time last year). But its new Lord of the Rings prequel The Rings of Power is a whole new beast, rumoured to be the priciest TV show ever: costing $465 million for just one season.
Set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before Bilbo and Frodo, this series aims to capture the integral events leading up to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Morfydd Clarke (Saint Maud) stars as a young Galadriel, a powerful Elf who would prove vital to the eventual destruction of the One Ring, which was forged during this era.
