Hot Fantasy Series Star Crushes Fan Hopes: ‘Season 1 Wasn’t Good Enough’ – Show Cancelled!

“I think we have to accept that it’s over,” Rosamund Pike declared in an interview with Collider, sounding the death knell for fans of The Wheel of Time.

Cancelled by Amazon last May after three seasons, the heroic fantasy series based on Robert Jordan’s novels seemed to have found its audience. Its third season boasted a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 77/100 on Metacritic, making it the highest-rated fantasy series in recent years in the US. On AlloCiné, the series has an average viewer rating of 3.4 out of 5.

A Too-Late Revival

“Fans said that Season 1 wasn’t good enough, which I agree with, for several reasons,” Pike concedes. Between COVID striking during filming and changes in department heads, the start was chaotic. “By Season 2, we knew what we were doing, and we delivered a much better season.“

Season 3 was the pinnacle: “We had spread our wings, and we were showing where we were able to go. It was a well-acted, well-written, consistent, deep series, attracting powerful actors to play supporting characters.” And we couldn’t agree more with her!

Victim of the “renewal factor”

Despite respectable ratings (top 10 Nielsen, #1 on Prime Video in several countries) and support within Amazon itself, the economics of the series led to its demise. Rosamund Pike mentions the “dreadful renewal factor of people wanting to show: ‘We have a new series.’ Everything revolves around the new.“

The actress dreams that “another studio would be wise enough to pick it up,” but quickly qualifies: “Who knows? But I think we have to accept that it’s over.” The series was apparently never offered elsewhere. Since the announcement, an online petition has gathered over 229,000 signatures, but to no avail.