I'm a big fan of GoT, and I am trying to like this show, but I actually don't even understand the such high rating here.

As one other reviewer put it, this is literally like a soap opera. It's just endless talking and drama inside a dark castle, or briefing outside in the gloomy and foggy weather. The only action or conflict we had was the Crab Eater guy, who was intriguing at first, but they ended that "years long war" with a silly single day battle and a completely anticlimactic killing of their leader.

In GoT there were many different characters and plotlines going on all the time, so it was easier to find characters you really liked, or hated. In HotD, there's not a single character that I have any sort of elevated emotion for, and especially less-so since the character/actor change for the time jump.

Overall, it's just a single, dark, boring, soap-opera-esque plotline that has failed to make me invested.