I waited for quite a while before watching this because I saw the Elizabethan costumes in the trailers and dreaded the lack of authenticity. But I finally succumbed. I'm into episode 4 at the moment. If you've read the books don't expect this to be like them. The plot is LOOSELY based on them, the character names are the same. Pretty much everyone has a British accent and although the vampires of course have enough time to learn any language and accent you would still expect American-/Australian- or French born characters to have that accent. That really put me off. Ysabeau is too old, Marcus doesn't look like an American surfer boy, Nathaniel and Agatha Wilson should be Australian, Gerbert ..., Dominco ... I could go on. The plot has been simplified to make it more palatable as a tv series. Changes have been made because, I guess, a modern audience can't fathom why characters wouldn't have sex as soon as they could, so Matthew and Diana's plot line of waiting until the time is right goes out the window. Marcus and Phoebe end up in bed almost on the first night. Those vampires just seem to be too much like humans. I will finish watching the series but I think I'll go back to the audio book version immediately to cleanse my brain afterwards. Oh, the acting is ok, I did like the spell weaving effects and the cgi areal shots of 1590s London.