The release of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” broke the audience record for an Amazon Prime Video premiere. The platform, which has always been very private with its numbers, officially reported that the attraction was seen by 25 million people around the world in a 24-hour period.
The first episode of the plot, inspired by the literary work of JRR Tolkien, premiered Thursday night (1/9) and, according to the streaming service, “broke all records, becoming the biggest premiere in the history of Prime Video “.
This was the first time the platform released data on the success of its original productions.
The success with the public helps to demonstrate how minority, albeit jarring, are the racists who have created a campaign to lower the rating of the series on websites open to viewers’ evaluation. If one relied on the reviews published in Metacritic, one would believe that “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is the worst series of all time and an audience failure. Nothing further from the truth.
The calls for a boycott, because “there are no dark elves”, did not get stuck, in the umpteenth defeat of the toxic fandom. The same racists and misogynists had already faced reality when they had failed in campaigns to distort audience reception in films such as “Black Panther”, “Captain Marvel” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, all successful. billionaires.
Fittingly, Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios, mentioned true Tolkien fans, who made the series reach numbers never seen before on the platform, in her thanks for the record, citing “the tens of millions of fans who watched – clearly as passionate about Middle-earth as we are – that they are our true measure of success. “
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” will continue to release episodes weekly on Prime Video, again at 1am on Fridays.
Source: Terra
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