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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8809476" data-attributes="member: 42856"><p>Average press critics in France (courtesy of allocine) gave the show 3-stars, nothing stellar. Reference daily newspaper Le Monde (=roughly, The Guardian) rated it two stars, finding it having uninteresting characters and barely saved by visual candy. It's difficult to think they are "just a notch above trolling". Le Nouvel Observateur (generally considered politically to the left) described it as "a piece of entertainment without any risk taking, childish manicheism, cardboard writing and characters, where the visual scenes overtake story and actor's play, with a tendancy toward evoking visual style of videogames such as Elden Ring". They add that the show is "fitting for pre-teen". <a href="https://www.nouvelobs.com/series/20220831.OBS62597/apres-le-cote-obscur-de-house-of-the-dragon-la-serie-les-anneaux-de-pouvoir-tente-d-allumer-la-lumiere.html" target="_blank">I am not overtranslating, really</a>. There is no mention of unfaithfulness to the original works or problem with the cast's skin color. While I won't dispute that some bad reviews were from trolls because of the polarization of certain people in a certain country around a certain problem, it's unfair to say that all bad, even scalding reviews were from trolls, especially organized trolls. Some just thought it was not worth watching at all for 8 hours. At the end the reviewer advises to spend time watching other shows instead, which is an excellent basis for giving it the lowest rating. Lowest rating doesn't necessarily mean "so bad that you should divorce if you significant other express interest in watching it."</p></blockquote><p></p>

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