This is one of only a handful of pieces of media out there that fails both as an adaptation and as a stand alone piece. The only things this series has in common with the source material is a handful of names. That's it. The Amazon original characters (which is the vast majority of them) are all as flat and lifeless as cardboard cutouts, while the canonical characters are all the exact opposite of who they're supposed to be.

Even judging it on its own merits, the show still falls flatter than a pancake. The main issue is that the story is sinfully boring. It had the pacing of a slug trying to power through molasses, and the vast majority of screen time is filled with people either sitting and talking, or walking and talking. And rarely is it even talking about important stuff. The story is also stuffed to the gills with logical inconsistencies and decisions that don't make a single lick of sense. The best I could possibly say is that the scenery is pretty and the orcs look decent. It's only a shame that the lowest I could give is a one star rating.

Clearly, the people behind this show wanted to eat their cake and have it too. They wanted to ride the coattails of one of the most beloved authors of the past century, but they didn't want to put in the work of actually following what the man wrote. Hopefully this lurching, Frankenstein's monster of a show can serve as an example to future producers of what not to do; If you're going to adapt someone else's intellectual property, either do it right, or don't do it at all.