I had high hopes for this when I first heard it was coming out. Yet almost from the off I had a bad feeling. The storyline is so boring, to the point where you just don't care what they are talking about. The characters are so uninteresting, that you can't be bothered to take the time to really invest in them. The lighting is so poor that most of the time you are just watching shadows moving around in the pitch black, with no idea about what is going on. The casting is also terrible, Olivia Cook is a good actress, but she's too soft and innocent to pull off a nasty and powerful Queen. Compare her to Lena Headey as Cersei and that is the difference between HOTD vs GOT. Sad to say I stopped watching halfway through as I found myself bored and not caring about what was going on.