Honestly I was expecting absolutely nothing when I got into this series, the later ones and of course especially Season 8 of GoT just left their scars on me.

What can I say, after one season we're back exactly where we were with GoT, namely terrible writing. So much doesn't make sense, contradicts characters' personalities, the concept of time doesn't exist again, ships and dragons are jets again, people don't age (sometimes the wrong ones), the focus on characters who are insignificant and nobody cares, etc. The weird modern feminist undertones everywhere, doesn't add to the upside either. You don't have to follow every episode live, one birth after the other, which then finally ended in body horror. It's funny that you show something so disgusting, but you can't even see a breast anymore. Nudity probably doesn't exist anymore, so we got a weird foot fetish scene and a teen jerking off on a window frame. (Oh yeah, and it's getting dark again, please someone teach them how to film night shots)

It actually started off okay, apart from the white Rastafarian who just stays weird until the end. The fact that HotD was running at almost the same time as the extremely awful Rings of Power probably contributed to the fact that this one seemed a lot better than it actually is. Unfortunately, after 2-3 episodes you realize that there really isn't a real plot and everything just creeps along. I will not go into any content of the series, except that the time jump has massively damaged the series. Practically nothing happens until episodes 7-8 and even these may each have a real plot for 30 minutes. They should have summarized the few key dates from E1-7, and E8, bad as it was written, should have been Episode 1. Virtually nothing prior to this is really necessary to understand what is happening.

The biggest problem with the series, it doesn't have a single likable character at all, apart from Ser Harrold. (which is trapped in a time capsule and doesn't age) The show tries so hard to push Rhaenyra and the Queen, but it just doesn't work. Neither of them is a good person, not even in the slightest to have any sympathy for them. That goes for absolutely every single character on the show, all of whom are horrible people doing horrible things all the time. Absolutely every single person could die and I wouldn't care at all and it probably wouldn't even affect the show as nobody would notice they were missing as they're not memorable.(The chances of wishing them dead are higher than caring for them) The writers also have absolutely no idea about drama, which you can tell from the fact that they have to kill an insignificant person in each episode, but they presumably consider them to be "important". Ohh, the guy we saw for the first time last episode is dead! Who cares?

My interest in further seasons is low, currently HotD is just guilty pleasure material and nothing more.