Prime Video’s New Animated Series Released Early & Free to Watch

November 16, 2025

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Amazon Prime Video’s newest animated series has been released early, and the first episode of adult fantasy The Mighty Nein is available to watch for free.

Prime Video has uploaded the first episode of The Mighty Nein on YouTube for excited fans eager to see what’s in store for the series. The series focuses on a powerful arcane relic called The Beacon as it’s possessed by a group of criminals and misfits. They must learn to work together to save the realm and avoid reality collapsing entirely.

The Mighty Nein is due to be released on November 19, with the first three episodes available to watch on Prime Video on its debut.

In the first episode, you meet an unlucky wizard named Caleb Widogast (voiced by Liam O’Brien), a wild goblin girl called Nott the Brave (voiced by Sam Riegel), and the brash Beauregard Lionett (Voiced by Marisha Ray). Its setting is in Exandria, which is the same as The Legend of Vox Machina.

According to its creators, Critical Role, there will be changes to what’s seen in the series compared to the tabletop game, so everyone is in for shock and surprise. This is Critical Role’s second tabletop campaign, but unlike Vox Machina, the antiheroes are the stars of this story. Prime Video’s official synopsis of The Mighty Nein is:

“The Mighty Nein tracks a group of outcasts, criminals, and misfits forced to work together when an arcane artifact is stolen by wizard assassins. After the relic, known as “The Beacon,” causes a massive border explosion, sending Wildemount to the brink of war, the Mighty Nein unwittingly becomes the only hope at stopping reality itself from unraveling.”

Showrunner Tasha Huo, with credits in The Witcher: Blood Origin and Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, has spoken about the new series and stated:

“A big part of the adaptation was thinking about, ‘Okay, well, where are these characters actually coming from?” And now that we have the time and space to really show them getting together for the first time, let’s take it, let’s take those 44 minutes and really see who they are, why they don’t trust each other when they first meet, and why it’s actually hard for them to come together.”

The Legend of Vox Machina was met with rave reviews when it was released in 2022 and had three seasons of fun. It has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 100% and is currently planning to release season 4 next year, which could lead to potential crossovers with the gang of misfits in The Mighty Rein.

Voice actor Ray spoke about The Mighty Rein vs. The Legend of Vox Machina and said, “A lot of people have commented on the tone being a little bit darker. You know, so if I don’t know if Vox Machina was The Hobbit, then this is Lord of the Rings.”

It’s great to see antiheroes getting their stories told, and people love to root for the underdogs, as seen from the success of Marvel’s Thunderbolts* movie released earlier this year.