I got about ninety percent through the first episode and gave up. The acting was okay, the costumes and sets looked great, CGI was good and really brought the dragons to life. I'd give it four stars on that alone. The problem was that it's pretty much all violence porn, and what isn't violence porn is just porn porn. It's like they dumped a bunch of writers into a room with the only instruction being to come up with the sickest, most vile content possible and then passed that on to their special effects people. It's graphic, gruesome, and not nearly enough story there. I feel bad for Matt Smith. His taste in projects post Dr. Who has made him a performer I no longer seek out, but this? I have to wonder if this role isn't career suicide.