With so much television to choose from nowadays, you have to be really invested in a TV show to stick with it and stop your eyes from wandering elsewhere. According to a recent write-up from The Hollywood Reporter, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power struggled to keep its viewers attention week-to-week, with only 45% of people who started it actually making it to the season 1 finale.
While the prequel series, which charts the rise of Sauron during the Second Age of Middle-earth, earned a respectable 83% on Rotten Tomatoes across the rollout of its first chapter, it received criticism for its slow-moving plot and the way it tweaked certain details present in J. R. R. Tolkien's original works – which is presumably why some never finished it. In the US, only 37% of people watched all the way to the end.
