Critical Role took a huge swing with 2022’s The Legend of Vox Machina, adapting their ultra-popular Dungeons & Dragons campaign into an animated series for Prime Video. There were some… growing pains. For one thing, the plot often moved too quickly, as if Critical Role was desperate to speed through hundreds of hours of actual-play storytelling. The tone also shifted wildly from crude and comedic to dark and dramatic, and the worldbuilding needed to establish the realm of Exandria was lacking. Now that Critical Role has released its second series, The Mighty Nein, which adapts its Campaign 2, set in the same world with a fresh cast of heroes, it’s clear the team took all those lessons to heart.

With The Mighty Nein season 1 complete (and streaming in its entirety on Prime Video), the spinoff series has already surpassed The Legend of Vox Machina. At this point, if you’re looking to get into Critical Role’s animated........

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