The Boiled Leather Audio Hour - BLAH 147 | The Wheel of Time, with Sean T. Collins

BLAH 147 | The Wheel of Time, with Sean T. Collins

02/12/22 • -1 min

The little known fantasy saga “The Wheel of Time” was picked up by niche channel Amazon Prime and made into a small-budget show of *checks notes* 80 million dollars, which is small compared to the *checks notes again* 500 million Amazon paid for the first season of the upcoming “Lord of the Rings” series. What a time we live in!
Sean T. Collins and I take you through a tour of the TV adaption of “The Wheel of Time”, talking about what worked and what didn’t and why we arrive at a solid B- for the show. Spoilers abound, of course, and word of warning: neither of us read the book.

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