There's no way this series should be rated 1 or 2 out of ten...your saying its an abomination with absolutely no redeeming features...its equivalent to the absolute worst of Asylum productions mixed with those hand held cam 'movies' that were obviously shot with friends and neighbors at the weekend as a goof and some how smuggled onto some movie sites as a legitimate film... or 10 out of 10, you are saying this is PERFECT, it is on par with or even surplants series like breaking bad, the shield, GOT first 6 seasons, The Watchmen, Battlestar galactiga all the triple A rated series that were both groundbreaking and had absolutely stellar casts writing production design and top of the line special effects ??? I honestly question the integrity of these reviews because this series is not with out flaws... its writing and dialogue and character development is uneven and in some cases non existent, It has a Director that has a need to provide longshots of what should be character moments and seems to want to get through an episode with the minimum continuity he can muster and shoe end nudity when ever he can without it having any deeper meaning or real relevance to whats actually going on in the scene BUT its not complete trash either...the fight scenes stand out, some of the special effects are outstanding though this is uneven as if you had completely different outfits working on different characters some lucas films level and some Scifi channel budget level 3 for the price of 1 type deal.. The actors are all good but good in the way you can tell they could be great if they had a script that gave them something to work with... the world itself is a place of interest if you can cut through the muddled story telling and rushed exposition ... We are given less than twenty minutes to accept an incestuous relationship and not only go from eeewww to having some sympathy for the characters but also their offspring who is cursed ... this would take a master of writing to manage (GoT took several seasons to give a sympathetic out look on their story line and the characters all had enormous story arcs) This series needs two things to bump it up into an 8 range review and that is a director who knows how to handle the material and a scriptwriter that can translate what is in the novels into a coherent believable character study ...where you are given time ti know these characters and what fuels their actions and what they mean to each other rather than A is in love with B but this episode they have this trouble and these characters have an issue also so slip a piece of their story in there and that's it... no more depth to it than that.. Its still a watchable show because what it does get right it absolutely nails...and it has all the building blocks for giving a thoroughly good show...it just needs someone who can put it altogether but there's no way this is pure Trash with zero redeeming quality's or anyone's idea of the absolute most perfect adaption of a thing they have ever witnessed