I still have trauma from GoT S8. I simply cannot bring myself to care or theorize about a show when writers are so incompetent. However this is not the case here. There's no "the message" west coast politics that make recent shows stink. What happens in this show is basically taken from the history of england. Characters are complex, the main young female character is extremely likeable (Alcock) and the male characters are not bumbling and stupid, and different from GoT. The writers try to convey the "this is the peacetime empire and the men are soft" and that goes through flawlessly and contrasts beautifully with GoT where the men were pretty tough.

Know that unlike got the entire story of the show is out so refrain from reading it.