Took me over a year, but I forced myself to watch it.. every second of it. I truly tried to give it a chance and didn’t fast forward. The music and Orchestra were beautiful and brilliant as always, also There were very few good parts with Gandalf and the elves. But the episodes were terrible from the start and got so much worse each passing one … when one would try to compare the quality I’d compare it to sharknado … no racism not premeditated hate for another creation and development of lord of the rings our household owns and loves all the movies books and even the cartoons which our kids love But this is… a huge waste of money and time the story was poor the detail was forced it felt like someone was intentionally trying to sabotage the series. All drama and nonsense aside all friends and family had a similar reaction. -(It was physically uncomfortable to watch)