Can every episode of Amazon Prime’s big new series The Wheel of Time really cost $10m dollars to make? Pretty much everything in it, after all, looks or sounds vaguely familiar.
The villages are reminiscent of those in Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth, and set in a landscape that might be either New Zealand or the Eden Project in Cornwall, before they built the café. The costumes are straight out of the Toast catalogue. And when the Enya-ish soundtrack strikes up – to be honest, it never strikes down – you half expect Gwyneth Paltrow to appear, bearing a collagen mocktail and a particularly whizzy vibrator. As for the monsters, up close they look like Lemmy out of Motörhead (RIP) after a bad night. Quick, someone! Fetch me a litre of bourbon and24 Solpadeine.
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