Hate-watching Amazon's "Rings of Power"

RoP's Gil-Galad and Elrond - among the wisest, noblest and most beautiful creatures of this world (cough...)

I have never before watched-all-through a long series that I thought was very bad, before Amazon's "Rings of Power" - which is supposedly based-on JRR Tolkien; but isn't. 

But apparently hate-watching is addictive! Because I find myself counting the days (21 to go!) before Series Two appears; and I can again "enjoy" the most all-round-incompetent big-budget TV series of all-time.  

My main fear is that Series Two will not be as bad as Series One - that it might get into the Uncanny Valley zone where it became enough like Tolkien to exert a subversive effect on the real thing. Because Series One was so very bad, so utterly unlike Tolkien, that a lifetime Tolkien-lover could watch it without any sense of distortion or woke-repurposing. 

But suppose Series Two is better enough that I can take it at all seriously as a Tolkien adaptation? That might indeed be so unpleasant that I would need to stop viewing the thing.

However, at present (and having viewed the four minute Trailer), I am quite relaxed in my expectation. So long as the team of wooden-headed Munchkins involved in producing and implementing Series One remains unchanged, and while no mistakes of Series One have been admitted by this team, I look forward to more of the same kind of stuff that kept me glued to the screen two years ago. 

If I'm wrong, however; and the Munchkins have managed to raise Rings of Power: Series Two to the level of mediocrity - I shall be sure to let you know; so we can both avoid it.