A month has passed since one of Prime Video’s best fantasy series returned with a new installment, and it continues to dominate streaming. The series was highly praised for its characters, animation, and the way each new season increased the stakes, and with the final season currently in production, it’s no surprise that fans are still tuning in to this show.
The title in question is The Legend of Vox Machina, an animated series based on Critical Role‘s first campaign, which was livestreamed between 2015 and 2017. The show follows a group of heroes called Vox Machina — Vex’ahlia (Laura Bailey), Vax’ildan (Liam O’Brien), Percival de Rolo (Taliesin Jaffe), Pike Trickfoot (Ashley Johnson), Keyleth (Marisha Ray), Scanlan Shorthalt (Sam Riegel), and Grog Strongjaw (Travis Willingham). Season 4 introduces a new big bad, The Whispered One, and follows his ascension to godhood. It’s up to our heroes, who’ve split up for a year after the events of Season 3, to get back together and stop him and his cult followers.
The Legend of Vox Machina continues to find a place on the streaming charts, now at #10 on Prime Video’s Top 10 TV shows in the United States, just below The Summer I Turned Pretty.Upon its release last month, Season 4 earned a perfect 100% score on the Tomatometer and 90% on the Popcornmeter on Rotten Tomatoes, proving the series continues to impress both audiences and critics.
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Collider Exclusive · Universe Personality Quiz Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most? Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek
Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your values, and your particular way of existing were built for. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🚀Star Wars
💍Lord of the Rings
🧙Harry Potter
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👑Game of Thrones
🖖Star Trek
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What gives your life its deepest sense of meaning? Every universe is built around a different answer to this question.
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Which kind of world do you most want to inhabit? The environment shapes who you become. Choose carefully.
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How do you prefer your conflicts resolved? The shape of a world’s conflicts tells you everything about its soul.
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Who do you want beside you when things get difficult? Your ideal companions reveal the world you were made for.
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What is your relationship with power? How you seek, wield, or resist power is the map of who you are.
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How does your universe treat good and evil? A world’s moral architecture tells you more about it than any map.
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What role would you naturally fall into? Every universe has archetypes. Which one fits you without trying?
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What do you ultimately believe about the future? The answer to this is the clearest window into which universe already lives inside you.
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Your Universe Has Been Chosen You Belong In…
Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.
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A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.
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You are drawn to the moral clarity of a universe where hope itself is a form of resistance.
You’d find your people in the Rebellion — a ragtag coalition of true believers held together by conviction more than resources.
Star Wars is fundamentally a story about ordinary people choosing to matter in an extraordinary conflict — and that is exactly your kind of story.
The Force may or may not be with you. But the will to use it for something larger than yourself certainly is.
Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings
You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.
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Middle-earth is a world of ancient wonder, deep friendship, and a darkness that only retreats when enough small acts of courage accumulate.
You would thrive here because you value the fellowship more than the glory — the road more than the arrival.
Tolkien’s universe rewards patience, loyalty, and the willingness to carry something heavy across a very long distance.
Those are not burdens to you. They are simply how you move through the world.
The Wizarding World
Harry Potter
You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.
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The Wizarding World is a place of wonder hidden in plain sight, where learning is transformative and the bonds you form at school follow you into every battle.
You would flourish here because you take both the magic and the friendships seriously — and you understand that one without the other is incomplete.
Harry Potter’s universe ultimately rewards those who choose to stand for something even when standing is terrifying.
That choice — made quietly, without guarantee — is something you understand completely.
Westeros · The Known World
Game of Thrones
You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.
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Westeros is a world that rewards intelligence, adaptability, and the willingness to understand that every alliance is also a negotiation.
You would survive here — possibly thrive here — because you don’t confuse the world as it is with the world as you’d like it to be.
Game of Thrones is a story about what happens when the idealists and the realists collide. You are sharp enough to know which one lasts longer.
Winter always comes. You are already prepared.
The United Federation of Planets
Star Trek
You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.
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Star Trek is a universe where the questions matter as much as the answers, and where encountering something utterly alien is cause for wonder rather than fear.
You would belong here because you are fundamentally optimistic about what intelligence and decency can achieve — while being honest about how hard that achievement is.
The Federation is the universe’s most ambitious thought experiment: what if we actually got better?
You don’t just hope that’s possible. You think it’s the only thing worth working toward.
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What Else To Watch if You Like ‘The Legend of Vox Machina’
The Legend of Vox Machina has confirmed that Season 5 is in the works and will be the show’s final season. So, while waiting for the final installment to arrive, there are other shows worth watching that should suit your fancy. One recommendation isThe Mighty Nein, another Prime Video animated series based on Critical Role’s livestreams, this time adapting their second campaign, which aired between 2018 and 2021. The show follows a new team of heroes, The Mighty Nein, and takes place about 20 years after the events of Campaign One. Just like The Legend of Vox Machina, The Mighty Nein also received a perfect critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Another high fantasy anime worth watching is Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. Based on the manga of the same name, the series follows the elven mage Frieren (Atsumi Tanezaki/Mallorie Rodak) as she embarks on a new journey years after her party defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the world. She is joined by Fern (Kana Ichinose/Jill Harris) and Stark (Kana Ichinose/Jill Harris) — a mage and warrior who were former apprentices of her old team members — as they embark on a long trip to Aureole, a place said to be where souls reside. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End has aired its first two seasons, with Season 3 set to premiere in October 2027.
Seasons 1 to 4 of The Legend of Vox Machina are available to stream on Prime Video. Follow Collider for more updates.
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Release Date
January 27, 2022
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Prime Video
Showrunner
Brandon Auman
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Directors
Young Heller, Eugene Lee, Alicia Chan
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Writers
Eugene Son, Travis Willingham, Chris Wyatt, Kevin Burke, Suzanne Keilly, Mae Catt, Todd Casey, Ashly Burch, May Chan, Marc Bernardin
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