Well, where to start?

Mads' is great: ignore all the negative opinions about his acting, it is borderline perfect.

I was enthralled, captivated and thoroughly enjoying the acting & the cast, but most of all I was enjoying the absolutely superb cinematography in this series.

It is dark in places (I'm not talking about Game of Thrones dark) which added to the gloriously gothic take on the books.

What ruined this for me was the terrible, terrible experimental sound track that progressively gets worse as the series continues. There is a plethora of classical music that could be used, but instead we are tortured with random pounding of drums and glockenspiel. Much louder than the dialogue, so I was forever reaching for the volume button, turning up to catch the dialogue, then down to avoid the ear splitting dross of the soundtrack.