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Arcane rules whether or not you’ve never played Riot’s popular MOBA
It’s not always easy to predict which shows will instantly become appointment television. A dark fantasy series based on a half-completed run of novels? Yup! A profane but sardonically humorous soap inspired partially by Rupert Murdoch? Okay, sure! How about an animated prequel for a multiplayer game with more than 140 distinct playable characters? Uh...
Yes, in the event you haven’t heard, a Netflix series based on Riot’s immensely popular MOBA, League of Legends, is all the rage these days. It’s called Arcane, and it’s tearing up the charts.
But you possibly already knew that. Arcane, after all, is the first show to dethrone Squid Game from Netflix’s most-watched list since that show’s buzzy fall debut. It’s also currently sitting at a coveted 100 percent on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes (audience score: 98 percent), making it the platform’s best-rated show, according to International Business Times. Everyone loves this one, and rightfully so.
Arcane mostly focuses on the story of two young, orphaned sisters—the pink-haired Vi and the blue-haired Powder—and their surrogate family, all of whom live in the downtrodden Undercity. In the premiere, they stage a heist on an apartment in the well-heeled upper quarter, Piltover. Obviously, it does not go as planned. The resulting plot spirals quickly out of control, roping in several other League mainstays, including the inventors Jayce and Viktor and the well-heeled heiress Caitlyn. (Fun fact: In the wake of Arcane’s sudden surge of popularity, more people are playing as characters from the show in League matches.)
Read the full article on Kotaku
