Gave it a chance, but this universe is obsessed with torture. I am starting to think it was not the original show runners, but Martin's universe which is just violence porn with a layer of awful politics so that people can pretend they are learning "how the world works" while satisfying some deep primal urge of violence.

That said, the sets are very well done, and I think the actors all do a good job. It's the content of the universe that I just have no faith in at this point and I expect this review to do nothing because people desperately want content, and this fills that void and others. But I just find it very formulaic.