Rings of Power Season 2 Knows You're in on Sauron's Secret This Time

When The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power returns to Prime Video for its 2nd season successful August, it tin beforehand its storytelling successful ways that felt intolerable successful play 1 arsenic agelong arsenic a definite large secret—that “Halbrand,” the quality played by Charlie Vickers, is really Middle-earth’s large bad, Sauron—was being kept safe. Along with the audience, the show’s creators feel a consciousness of alleviation astir this.

Speaking to Empire Magazine, Rings of Power co-showrunner Patrick McKay called Sauron’s emergence “the large untold [J.R.R. Tolkein] communicative connected the screen,” and likened the quality to different large “villain-hero” protagonists, including Breaking Bad’s Walter White and The Sopranos’ Tony Soprano. In play two, Sauron volition beryllium acting successful the guise of an Elf named Annatar, and this clip around, “the assemblage is successful connected the con,” McKay said. “We cognize who helium is ... The amusive is watching different radical get ensnared successful the web.” That web of evil volition unfurl passim the play and bring assorted crippled threads together, yet weaving a communicative astir “the mode the re-emergence of Sauron touches everybody and threatens the full world.”