‘The Wheel of Time’ Cancelled After Three Seasons!!

The Wheel of Time will no longer spin at Prime Video. The fantasy series, based on the popular novels by Robert Jordan, has been cancelled after three seasons. Deadline reports that the decision was made for financial reasons.

The big-budget series is the latest victim of the contracting streaming universe. Although Amazon was happy with the show creatively, especially as its Rotten Tomatoes score rose with every successive season, it was deemed financially unsustainable, especially with Amazon footing the bill for another pricey high-fantasy series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The series’ third-season finale, which aired last month, was designed to serve as a possible series finale, to give the show some closure. Nevertheless, it will come as a disappointment to the series’ legion of fans, who have been mounting a grassroots campaign for the series to get a fourth-season renewal.

What Is ‘The Wheel of Time’ About?

The series is set in a fantasy world where humanity’s existence is subtly controlled by the titular Wheel of Time, whose spin determines the Pattern of the Ages. The force known as the One Power controls the spin of the Wheel, and a select number of mortals have the power to influence it. One such individual is Moiraine Damodred (Rosamund Pike), who seeks out four young people from a remote village with her companion and Warder, Lan Mandragoran (Daniel Henney). She believes that one of the youths is the Dragon Reborn, who is prophesied to either save the world or destroy it; while some members of her order, the Aes Sedai, want the Dragon Reborn destroyed, she wishes to protect them. However, an ancient evil known as the Dark One seeks the Dragon Reborn as well, and has dispatched its fanatical followers to find them. The series adapted the first five books of the series, but not without making some major changes to the books’ plots and characters.

Jordan began the series in 1990 with The Eye of the World: it eventually stretched out to eleven volumes and a prequel novel before Jordan died of cancer at age 58 while working on the twelfth book of the series. Using Jordan‘s extensive notes, fantasy author Brandon Sanderson completed the series with three novels, bringing the final series to fourteen volumes.

The Wheel of Time has been cancelled at Prime Video after three seasons.