I thought Game of Throns seasons 7 and 8 were the worst thing someone could do to great source material. Then I watched this.

I don't know if all the 8+ stars reviewers watched a completely different show.

Update after season 2:

Unbelievable but they managed to make it even worse. I had hope after episode 1 being quite ok, but that sh** went downhill so fast... What an unbelievably arrogant human being must the creator of this show be to think she's a better writer than the original author who has millions of fans following his fiction, his world and the games based very accurately on his world.

Just stick to that damn source material and stop making your underwhelming storylines. Seriously!

Acting was mostly somewhere between mediocre and bad, and most of the actors feel misplaced in the world.

CGI is awful, like mid 90ies stuff.

None of the characters behaves true to the books.

That Fringilla storyline is soooo incredibly bad, I can't imagine anyone in charge let that happen.

Credit to Henry who seems the only one at least trying. But no chance to save this mess of a show.