I purposely waited until I had watched the whole first series before I commented largely because the first two or three episodes of every series are not enough to really gauge where a show is going. Now that I've seen it I rated this show as a 7 because I think it has a lot of potential and I am looking forward to more but the 1st season really went too fast. Certain elements of the story looked like they were thrown in there just to get them in. As someone who has read the books I was able to follow things pretty well but I'm not sure how a non-book reading audience has managed.

This is one of the most faithful adaptations to a book that I've ever seen. Still some key elements to the story were left out. I am hoping the show has reasons for this and we will find out in the next two seasons.

The show is beautifully shot and most of the writing is pretty good (make sure that Sarah Dollard writes most of the shows next time around. Her episodes were the best.) The special effects needed some work but they were serviceable.

Since Sundance has joined the mix of the financing please let that mean that there will be more episodes. This series DESPERATELY needed more time to tell the story. Another 2-3 episodes would have helped immensely with character building and believability. Here's hoping Bad Wolf has someone reading these comments and will look into that.