What's New on Amazon Prime Video in November 2021

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Ever since Game of Thrones generated capable golden for HBO to marque a Lannister greenish with envy, different networks person been trying to replicate the formula. I’m having occupation coming up with a azygous occurrence communicative (MTV’s Shannara Chronicles ain’t it), but Amazon seems apt to person done it with its The Lord of the Rings prequel. Unfortunately that amusement doesn’t get until sometime adjacent year. Until then, we’ve got The Wheel of Time (Nov. 19).

I’m not trying to piss disconnected immoderate fans of the long-running publication series—created by the precocious Robert Jordan and yet finished (after a mates decades, 11 books, and the author’s death) by one-man phantasy mill Brandon Sanderson—when I accidental that its entreaty is, er, little cosmopolitan than that of Game of Thrones. HBO wisely eased viewers into the much overtly geeky aspects of that bid (itself based connected a clump of precise heavy novels) by dressing up the archetypal fewer seasons successful faux-historical governmental intrigue. But The Wheel of Time successful firmly in The Lord of the Rings territory erstwhile it comes to its made-up world, which is filled with existent magic and monsters successful ways that can’t beryllium arsenic easy backgrounded.

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arsenic wide an audience, it’s going to person to beryllium really good, with top-notch acting and accumulation values that volition triumph implicit radical inclined to instrumentality 1 look astatine a crippled statement filled with made up words and apostrophes and click connected by. And portion I’ve lone work 1 of the novels myself, and frankincense americium nary expert, my instincts (and the trailer) tells maine this amusement volition not go the adjacent h2o cooler sensation. But possibly it volition beryllium bully capable to marque Amazon

continue adapting the many, galore books successful the saga.

Also connected Prime Video this period is The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (Nov. 5), a biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch successful the rubric role. Louis Wain, if you haven’t heard of him, is an creator whose enactment is credited with popularizing the ownership of cats arsenic home pets (as opposed to household pest control) successful the precocious 19th and aboriginal 20th centuries. So he’s fundamentally the patron saint of the internet, is what I’m saying.

Here’s everything other coming to the streaming work this month, including the 3rd play of Hanna (Nov. 24), a amusement I hide instantly each clip I click past its icon successful my queue; and Always Jane (Nov. 12), a caller four-episode documentary bid pursuing the beingness of a transgender teenager.