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Unlike modern genre hits like Game of Thrones and The Witcher, Merlin successfully embraced a lighter tone, which more fantasies need to do.

We pick up 75 years after the events of the first two episodes of The Pendragon Cycle: The Rise of Merlin, with Merlin running through the forests. It looks like he’s running from someone, and he’s a ...