Amazon doesn’t want to hear your Rings of Power takes, at least not for now. Over the weekend, the studio behind the highly anticipated new Lord of the Rings spin-off show suspended user reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for three days, ostensibly to protect itself from its own fandom review-bombing the series.
Since The Rings of Power’s two-episode premiere last Friday, some 20,000 viewers have rated the show on Rotten Tomatoes, resulting in a dismal 39% audience score, a stark contrast to the show’s strong 84% critics score. A source at Amazon told the Hollywood Reporter that the review embargo was to help filter out trolls and that it had instituted the policy earlier this summer for all Prime Video shows (though if that were the case, it wouldn’t explain why the review pause was enacted midway after the audience score began dwindling, rather than immediately after the show’s premiere).
