The Rings of Power Season 2 Rotten Tomatoes Scores Show Improvement for Hotly Debated Show

Is Amazon’s unbelievably costly The Lord of the Rings bet beginning to pay off? 
 
Looking at the new fantasy drama Ring OF Power, which caused much controversy before the start of the second season, the critic and audience response has increase from the series performance in the year 2022. 
 
On Thursday, the company launched three episodes of the new season on Prime Video allowing the audience to watch a considerable part of the eight episodes of the show. First critical consensus is 92% of fresh tomatoes and viewers’ rating is 69 percent positive. 
 
One has to remember that the first season was actually somewhat well received by critics and the average rating was about 83%, and this season has came from that. The 69 percent audience score may be the second of these numbers, but look at it in comparison with the nearly catastrophic first-season score of 38 percent. 
 
Of course, this comes as no surprise since holding scores are a versatile thing and these ratings will and can change as more episodes come into play, but the verdicts of the critics who got to watch the episodes beyond the top three are that the hours following them are at least as good as the first ones. Season one and season two, of the show received a very stable reaction from the audiences both having a IMDb rating of 7. 3 out of 10, however the Amazon-owned service was also said to have removed negative reviews last time. ) 
 
However, the positive Rings reviews are still mostly in between positive and negative instead of all positive. The Hollywood Reporter gave its own review which was also negative and, The Washington Post summed up its review saying “The Rings of Power grows better in its second season, but that is not saying very much. ” 
 
Lots of people are again drawing parallels between Rings to HBO’s House of the Dragon. Even during the first series where the shows competed for ratings in the first half of 2022 viewers were much more impressed by Dragon than the show that was supposed to compete with it. However, the second season of Dragon was regarded as rather weak by some fans, and Rings‘ showrunners appear to have gone well out of their way to apparently take heed of what was and was not popular from their first intake. They developed several points with a season that has a faster pace and offers more precise dramatic tension to match beautiful and well-designed imagery (and the music by Bear McCreary). The RT scores of the Dragon for season two were 83 percent for critical acclamation and 74 percent from the audience and it encompassed the complete season not three episodes. 
 
It is also worthy to note that Rings scored higher than the overall CSM in terms of audience and that the audiences’ reaction to Rings provides insight into the current discourse on the first season of the show. Its low scores were at least partly linked to review bombing caused by ‘woke’ aspects of the show (there was a real percentage of the show’s backlash which had language backing up this received wisdom, and some of the actors were subjected to hate speech). Well, if we have to draw concrete and sometimes practical conclusions from this work and its findings as to what it means for audiences to ‘ignore the message but get the story,’ then what do we make of the audience largely embracing the show’s second season? Probably, it showed techniques of not becoming woke. Did its viewers become less critical of the creators’ more progressive interpretation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth? Maybe the first season’s haters just did not tune in this time at all? Or were the show’s supporters wrong in assigning so much responsibility for the scores to trolls? Perhaps, a combination of all these or maybe some of these factors? 
 
Another question: Ratings. The Rings of Power is even known to be the most expensive television series in history breaking the budget of $715 million. Amazon alone has disclosed that the first season was seen by over 100 million people and the corresponding number of minutes watched exceed 32 billion, and will likely push back against this story’s query of whether or not the show is now paying off by saying that it is. 
 
However, according to The Hollywood Reporter, 37 percent, which should be considers as ‘solid’, is the completion rate after the first season , which indicated a decline. It will, therefore, be a bit fascinating as we move on to see whether the more positive reaction will mean that those audience scores will in fact translate into larger ratings or simply, these are the die-hard fans of the first season who just hang in there. In either case, as the out-of-the-gate reaction to a series many were skeptical about initially, The Rings of Power is a bit of a late summer hit that looks to be getting off to better start the second time around.