Eight minutes and 50 seconds, to be exact. That's the exact number of quality scenes in the entire first season. With all of them condensed into the last episode (mostly being Galardiel - Halbrand* by the river scene).
Overall, I can't say I'm disappointed. There was so much silliness, bad acting, and virtue signaling in the first season that by the end of it, I had learned to mostly ignore or laugh it out.
I don't know why so much screen time was spent on the Harfoots and all those scenes other than trying to build up a weak twist. The last-minute Sauron twist wasn't believable at all, and even a non-fan would never be confused by that.
Describing the season as a whole, it could have turned out pretty good if it was 5 episodes instead of 8. If they hadn't wasted so much time on nonsense. If the dialogues had been interesting. If some of the important scenes were not directed in a laughable parody manner.
Overall, I would rate the first season at 6/10. The last episode was failure-proof, or at least hard to mess up. It also looks like somebody is helping with the dialogue, because in some scenes it feels like 200% better than on average. Maybe there is something to this.
If you subtract the visuals, it's 4/10.
If you are a more hardcore Tolkien fan (which I am not), 2-3/10.
Overall, I can't say I'm disappointed. There was so much silliness, bad acting, and virtue signaling in the first season that by the end of it, I had learned to mostly ignore or laugh it out.
I don't know why so much screen time was spent on the Harfoots and all those scenes other than trying to build up a weak twist. The last-minute Sauron twist wasn't believable at all, and even a non-fan would never be confused by that.
Describing the season as a whole, it could have turned out pretty good if it was 5 episodes instead of 8. If they hadn't wasted so much time on nonsense. If the dialogues had been interesting. If some of the important scenes were not directed in a laughable parody manner.
Overall, I would rate the first season at 6/10. The last episode was failure-proof, or at least hard to mess up. It also looks like somebody is helping with the dialogue, because in some scenes it feels like 200% better than on average. Maybe there is something to this.
If you subtract the visuals, it's 4/10.
If you are a more hardcore Tolkien fan (which I am not), 2-3/10.