Superb performances by Matt Smith, Paddy Considine and Bill Paterson. However there are some truly dreadful displays from far too many actors in this show. They lack gravitas and stumble over their lines and take one out of the scene. I have no idea what happened here. Surely the director should have got weak performers to redub their lines? This is very much an inferior version of Game of Thrones. It is the Scrappy Doo to Scooby Do. I wasted far too many hours on this waiting for it to start for it to only meander with only the odd blip. Game of Thrones at its best set the bar very high but this series does not even come close.