Amazon says Wheel Of Time is its most-watched premiere of 2021 - The A.V. Club
And while much of the focus of the Bezosian Conquest was on Amazon’s eventual Lord Of The Rings show—still expected to be among the most expensive TV series ever produced—that return trip to Middle-Earth did have a fantasy adaptation forerunner, of sorts: The streamer’s glossy spin on Robert Jordan’s The Wheel Of Time, which debuted on Amazon earlier this month.
And while the Rosamund Pike-fronted series has yet to achieve a true Game Of Thrones stranglehold so far (i.e., a complete domination over the cultural conversation for years at a time), it has at least succeeded at its more basic pursuits.That is, Uproxx reports that Wheel Of Time’s first episode, “Leavetaking,” has now become Amazon’s most-watched premiere of the year, and one of its top five launches of all time.