Wheel of Time: Eight things to know about the epic new fantasy series
Madeleine Madden and Josha Stradowski in The Wheel of Time, on Amazon Prime.
“Bring me the new Game of Thrones!” This was the message, more or less, that Amazon boss Jeff Bezos handed down to his minions in 2017 as George RR Martin’s bloodthirsty fantasy saga dominated the ratings, the news cycle and social medial.
Amazon was at the time trying to establish its Prime Video service as a quality rival to Netflix, and also to the HBO network which in the US had steamrolled over TV with Game of Thrones. But Prime Video was limping along with niche quasi-hits such as the Marvellous Mrs Maisel. Bezos wanted something bigger.
