I won't pretend that I know what is going on. The plot is labyrinthine and there are so many characters that drift in and out of the story. Plus the time lapse between series one and two makes it difficult to remember the events that have gone before.

Not having played the game I need the series to give me something I can understand on its own. It fails to do that.

Nevertheless, the quality of what you are watching shines through, with palpable atmosphere, scary monsters, fantastic sets and panoramas (Cintra for example) and, most of all, the tremendous presence of Henry Cavill, who raises the whole thing a notch. Shame - if I was less bewildered it might have merited a 10.