I thought the first season was good, apart from some terrible casting choices, but the second season has been a huge let down.

Like with many recent adaptations of novels, if the writers had just kept to the source material, the show could have been excellent. However, the writers and producers think they know better and proceed to remove good points in the books to add their own dismal mess of a storyline.

The characters seem to use fast travel to go from one corner of the continent to another (without the use of portals), worse than my Witcher 3 playthrough, where I did all the quest out of order. This darting back and forth, traversing three to four kingdoms between each scene, is done to try to put the characters in the right place to fit their poorly conceived story.

My advise to writers in Hollywood when adapting novels is to adapt the ******** novels and not to insert their own contrived plots.