I couldn't make it past the first 20 pages of the book without dying of boredom before giving up on it, but the first season of this series looked very promising so I made the mistake of committing myself to it.

The story is incredibly weak, the acting is weak, the politics is weak, and the dialogue is weak.

They keep fast forwarding the story by months and years at a time in between episodes without even having the courtesy to tell you how much time has actually elapsed since the previous piece of trash episode, and in episode 6, they fast forward the story so much that they have to replace half the actors with older ones just as you've become used to them.

George R. R. Martin struck it lucky with Game of Thrones, and the books that he never finished are the only good books he ever wrote. Everything else he wrote is absolute garbage and he clearly hasn't finished the books that were good because he knows that he will serve them a gross injustice. He should seriously go into retirement now instead of wasting our valuable time exposing us to this garbage he is creating lately.