Not knowing anything about the books and video games, I find this show so engaging and just entertaining. This is Henry Cavil's best work, besides maybe MIS Fallout, however knowing how much he wanted this role and seeing how much effort he put into this, I love it based on that. I love that this season has a story whilst also building setup for another season, which after watching the show I realized is what most people were excited for, but I thought this season does a good job at creating setup, but being enjoyable and immersive enough to be a good first season. The monsters in it are creative and I love that they aren't always the main focus of the overarching story for the whole season.

For negatives, I thought that the timelines were a bit jumbled, it took me till episode 3 to realize that all the things with the 3 separate main characters were all taking decades apart from one another, which is fine, it's just that it was something that we the audience need to pick up on and something we aren't spoon fed to us, respect to the producers and directors for not treating us like children but I felt it could have been a little clearer where we are in the story from time to time. My last negative is that Episode 3 is pretty boring and I think that it's kinda frustrating how essential it is to the show and yet I think it's the worst by far and really uninteresting, the acting in this episode just feels so off and I really hate the idea behind the law of surprise, I've read that it's a lot easier to comprehend in the books and video games, but it felt so thrown in to this show and so abrupt for the story, it's also really poorly explained.