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No Season 4 for the fantasy drama.
May 23, 2025
It is being reported that Prime Video has cancelled The Wheel of Time after three seasons. The news comes just over a month after the fantasy drama wrapped its now-final 8-episode run.
The series premiered in 2021, garnering a generally positive reception from critics, plus strong viewership that ranked it as one of the streamer's top five debuts of all time. While the show continued to earn high praise in subsequent seasons, its most recent audience numbers weren't large enough to financially justify a fourth season.
Based on Robert Jordan's novel series, The Wheel of Time follows Moiraine, a member of the Aes Sedai, an order of women who can channel the power of magic. Looking to locate the latest reincarnation of the Dragon, the light's champion, she guides a group of young people on a journey around the world, believing one of them could be the powerful individual prophesied to save the world - or destroy it.
Comments (30)
05/31/25 at 00:19am
Sadly, the show diverged so much from the excellent books that it was almost unrecognizable. I get some changes had to be made for TV, like altering when certain characters appear, for casting reasons, but they changed fundamental aspects of the books that just ruined it. I've read the series three times, and if this show hadn't had the WoT name, I'd have given up on it long ago.
05/29/25 at 10:32am
It never fails when I start watching a series on Netflix, when I check this site, and the series is cancelled. Although, this series is based on several books which has many stories to tell.
05/29/25 at 07:34am
The books were mainly about a male character. This was about his girl bosses. This alienated readers. It could have had a balance of male and female but the agenda demanded this change
05/28/25 at 08:40am
@'Merica - well-stated. I had the same feeling about GOT as you. Maybe that's exactly what it was. I needed a slower pacing to develop the characters and enjoy the progress of the story. I understand that they probably had to pace it that way to hook / keep others who had not read the books interested. Perhaps the Dark Tower series will get a better adaptation. Stephen King is involved, and they claim that they are planning to do the show like the books. Still hoping for a Thomas Covenant series, but that will probably never happen
05/28/25 at 05:39am
Rafe (Showrunner): We can't follow the books completely because we only have so many episodes and each episode is limited in it's run time.
Also Rafe: Let's add in all these scenes/storylines that were never in the book.
The books had strong male AND female hero's. The show turned the men into weak, ineffectual side characters, and made the women OP and unfailable. They didn't need to nerf the men and buff the women, because the books already had tons of strong female characters.
The books had true villains. Villains that were true evil, with no redeemable qualities. The show gave the villains sympathetic backstories and made them bad only because of things that happened to them, and not because of their own choices & desire to do evil. Stop making "reluctant" villains, they don't exist.
In the end, this show had a amazing blueprint in the form of the source material AND they even had the best advisor you could ask for in Brandon Sanderson. But Rafe didn't care about that, he decided to do it his way, to get revenge on all the people who bullied him (Google it), and he took someone else's hard work and used it to send his message, which was not even close to the message of the original author/source material.
Also Rafe: Let's add in all these scenes/storylines that were never in the book.
The books had strong male AND female hero's. The show turned the men into weak, ineffectual side characters, and made the women OP and unfailable. They didn't need to nerf the men and buff the women, because the books already had tons of strong female characters.
The books had true villains. Villains that were true evil, with no redeemable qualities. The show gave the villains sympathetic backstories and made them bad only because of things that happened to them, and not because of their own choices & desire to do evil. Stop making "reluctant" villains, they don't exist.
In the end, this show had a amazing blueprint in the form of the source material AND they even had the best advisor you could ask for in Brandon Sanderson. But Rafe didn't care about that, he decided to do it his way, to get revenge on all the people who bullied him (Google it), and he took someone else's hard work and used it to send his message, which was not even close to the message of the original author/source material.
05/27/25 at 02:28pm
@Jack, I had the same experience/reaction. I finished two episodes but couldn’t get past how much the show strayed from the book. To me, it all just felt too rushed. I loved the early seasons of GOT because it took an entire season for characters to move from one point to another; the story was the journey. WOT to me felt like the latter seasons of GOT, where characters were whisked from one location to another giving short shrift to the journey’s narrative.
05/27/25 at 10:44am
@'Merica - Not really surprising - everywhere has trolls. Whether the show was "leftist" or "woke" doesn't bother me. I just couldn't get into it. Loved the books...tried the first episode of the show three times. I couldn't get into it. I don't know the reason why, however. I watch so many shows that I figured it would be a shoe-in for regular rotation, but I will keep trying it a few more times just to be sure. Dexter strayed from the books wildly after the first episode, but I had no issue with that. Justified, GOT, Reacher, Fallout are great adaptations of the source material. I was just hoping for more, I guess.
05/26/25 at 07:24pm
Hilarious that ismyshowcancelled.com has trolls.
05/26/25 at 05:42pm
@JustKeith … I started reading g the series in ‘93 and have read the majority of each of the 14 books at least nine times. That being said, the show diverged from the book series to such an enormous extreme that actually reading the series would have probably only caused more confusion.
Also, Jordan’s series contained virtually no lesbians that was part of the changes made for the show - and it was done in a way (in choice of characters) that completely sent the plot off the rails.
Also, Jordan’s series contained virtually no lesbians that was part of the changes made for the show - and it was done in a way (in choice of characters) that completely sent the plot off the rails.
05/26/25 at 01:47pm
It’s increasingly difficult to produce a successful fantasy show because of ballooning budgets and the loudest voices constantly complaining about every single thing.
Respect to all you guys that take the time to respond to some of these idiots that complain about anything with a female lead or diverse cast. Clearly they have very uninteresting lives so they spend their days clogging up the comment sections and social media with their goofy takes.
Respect to all you guys that take the time to respond to some of these idiots that complain about anything with a female lead or diverse cast. Clearly they have very uninteresting lives so they spend their days clogging up the comment sections and social media with their goofy takes.
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