Power of the Rings: Game of Thrones for People Who Don’t Like Violence, Cursing, or Sex
Wow, so exciting.
A group of harfoots wandering around the forest. An elf and a dwarf in a mallet-swinging contest. An extremely earnest Galadriel stares daggers at the camera (alot) and sails around trying to find some friends.
These are but the many highlights of Amazon Prime's Power of the Rings. Doesn't sound like your cup of Miruvor? Then let me recommend the opposite side of the castar...
HBO's House of the Dragon is a full-on freakfest of incest, graphic childbirths, and hard language that would even make Tyrion Lannister blush. But that description might even be giving it too much credit or sound like a vote for it. It’s not.
It's hard to even say if Dragon is even any good, what with every episode trying to bring some “Red Wedding shock value” even if it means producers forcing it down our throats like some goblet of poisoned wine.
Needless to say, it's hard not to unfairly compare the first seasons of Power of the Rings and House of the Dragon, especially when streaming giants Amazon Prime and HBO+ almost purposefully pitted them head to head.
Both of them have their strengths, but each of them has many, many faults. One can't get out of the harfoot slow lane, while the other is a pounding ride to hell on the back of Prince Daemon's dragon. We wish one could turn it up just a tad, while the other brings it down a few gears.
So what's our recommendation? Watch them both and eagerly wait to see if Netflix can find the happy medium with their Narnia franchise next year.
But we predict they’ll fuck it up.