I feel like I'm the only person in the world who can't stand Matthew Goode. The rest of the casting was very well done, especially for Sarah Bishop and Peter Knox.

The All Souls Trilogy is rich, complex, subtle and moving. A Discovery of Witches TV series is a shallow adaptation. Gorgeous scenery and interesting camera work plus well-executed special effects, but Deborah Harkness's brilliant story was clumsily adapted with bland dialogue and lack of chemistry between the two main actors.

The show was juuuust interesting enough that I finished the entire season. Even when I consider the show on it's own merits, separate from my love of the books, it only rates as "average".