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Andrew Cunningham and Lee Hutchinson have spent decades of their lives with Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's Wheel of Time books, and they previously brought that knowledge to bear as they recapped each first season episode and second season episode of Amazon's WoT TV series. Now we're back in the saddle for season three—along with insights, jokes, and the occasional wild theory. These recaps won't cover every element of every episode, but they will contain major spoilers for the show and the book series. We'll do our best to not...

The third season of the Prime Video fantasy series The Wheel of Time premieres on March 13 and things are about to change for fan favorite Maksim, played by actor Taylor Napier. The Rafe Judkins series, based on the books by Robert Jordan, follows the growing divisiveness in the Westlands. Season three is based primarily on the fourth book, The Shadow Rising. Napier stars along a global cast that includes Rosamund Pike, Josha Stradowski, Marcus Rutherford, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Daniel Henney, Zoë Robins, Madeleine Madden, Josha Stradowski, Hammed Animashaun, Donal Finn,...