HBO, of course, deviates and inflates things at every change they get; dedicating an entire episode to a gay couple's love story (which wasn't in the game), or dedicating another entire episode to the girl's backstory (which could have been done in a fraction of that time). It seems HBO likes to grab on to stuff that they then have to fluff and stretch out to make a series - GOT was the same thing only in that case they outpaced the source material. This show is certainly better than that Walking Dead stuff but it is sorely overrated. Anything above an 8/10 in my book is absurd... There is absolutely no way this show is on the same level as Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Band of Brothers, etc.