I just wrote up a list of four recent 100% Rotten Tomatoes-scored shows you should be watching, but now, we’ve just seen one more released that I suppose I should add to that list.
That would be Amazon Prime Video’s The Mighty Nein. It is another animated series from Critical Role, this time, based on the second campaign. It takes place 20 years after the first campaign, which was adapted into The Legend of Vox Machina. It’s not a 1:1 recounting of events, but formatted to make a good TV show instead.
And it is a good TV show, as there are a full 14 reviews in, giving it a perfect score, not like, four. It’s too early for audience scores yet. Will that chance? Well, probably not.
The Legend of Vox Machina has a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score as well, but it did so managing to keep those perfect reviews for three seasons, which is no small feat. It ended up with a 94% total audience score as well. So it stands to reason that if the quality of The Mighty Nein remains the same, we should see similar results, and this is one of the most acclaimed western animated series I’ve ever seen, given these results across four seasons of two shows.
The Mighty Nein brings back almost the entire voice cast of The Legend of Vox Machina, this time playing different roles. That includes the likes of Laura Bailey, Matthew Mercer and Ashley Johnson, three of the biggest names in video game voicework especially, along with Taliesin Jaffe, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Reigel, Travis Willingham and more.
Here’s the synopsis of The Mighty Nein:
“When a powerful arcane relic known as The Beacon falls into dangerous hands, a group of fugitives and outcasts, bound by secrets and scars, must learn to work together to save the realm and stop reality itself from unraveling.”
We don’t have confirmation on if The Mighty Nein is planned to run for three seasons like The Legend of Vox Machina, but it likely depends on viewership and if Amazon is okay giving it the greenlight. I would have to imagine they would be, given how beloved Critical Role is and how good these series are. But in the world of streaming, you just cannot take anything for granted.
This is not a binge release. The first three episodes are out today, but the last five will air weekly on Wednesdays with the final on Christmas Eve. I’m looking forward to it, and I imagine all Critical Role fans are as well.
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