How Nikhil Koparkar's Musical Love Letter to 'The Wheel of Time' Led to Season 3's Smash Hit "The Hills of Tanchico"

Three seasons in, Prime Video's adaptation of The Wheel of Time has only become more expansive — not just through the story itself, but the world. While Season 2 introduces certain cultures like the Aiel and the ruthless Seanchan empire, the show's most recent third season also broadens even further to include new locations like the sweltering Waste and the treacherous coastal city of Tanchico. The latter is where several of our heroes, including Elayne (Ceara Coveney), Nynaeve (Zoë Robins), Mat (Dónal Finn), and Min (Kae Alexander), wind up while investigating the whereabouts of a Seanchan collar that can be used to control a man channeler — specifically, Rand al'Thor (Josha Stradowski) — but when her cover is nearly blown in Episode 6, Elayne's forced to break out into particularly bawdy song with help from our favorite gleeman, Thom Merrilin (Alexandre Willaume), and the result has been an earworm for fans ever since.