The writing of this show is simply terrible, there is no other way to describe it. Plot points are dropped at random and make very little sense to begin with. Dialogue is either unintentionally hilarious or mind-numbingly bad. The actors do a decent job with what they're given but they aren't given much. The show looks ok but considering the budget it has that isn't much of an achievement.

A seriously dumbed down adaptation of the books where any ambiguity or moral complexity that threatens to spark is quickly doused to make space for terribly choreographed action. I am of the opinion adaptations don't have to be faithful to the source material so long as you do something interesting with it. That is not the case here: different and worse.

I'm sure some teenager is Iowa half watching while on his phone will love this but if you are hoping to get anything more out of it you're out of luck.

Ps. Apologies to any Iowan teenagers.