LOTR: Rings Of Power Episode 6 Review
Rings of Power has received due criticism for being a bit slow in its first few episodes. Episode 6 «Udûn» demonstrates that the gradual build of the series' first half was the long fuse on a massive explosive payload. This episode is wall-to-wall excellent big-screen fantasy action with no breaks, and it's the high point of the series so far.
Charlotte Brändström has been in the industry since 1984, with directorial credits on shows like The Witcher, Outlander, and Jupiter's Legacy. She's to direct this episode and the following one. If «Udûn» is any indication, fans are in for quite a treat next week too.
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«Udûn» is the big fantasy battle climax that the show has been setting up the armies for. It's this season's answer to Helm's Deep. Though it isn't nearly as huge as Peter Jackson's iconic clash of good and evil, this smaller-scale conflict is still stellar. Arondir and Bronwyn's small encampment of surviving humans resolve to survive the coming Orc army. Though half of their forces turned to serve Adar, the remaining human forces devise one clever plan after another to do battle with their nightmarish foe. It's a near-perfect prolonged battle scene. It's fast-paced and brutal but firmly grounded. It's fantastical without ever feeling silly. It pushes the bounds of what might be allowed in a TV-14 production, with some genuinely impressive displays of violence. The budget is on-screen, and the fight choreography perfectly hits the mark between realism and fantasy.
For a show that's spent so much of its time cutting back and forth across thousands of miles to wildly disparate stories, «Udûn» is laser-focused. Not a moment of screen-time is wasted in this
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