First season: I had a hard time rating this show in the first season. The first episode is good, and the 7th and most of the 8th is also good/great TV. The episodes in the middle though... A bit confusing from mid episode 2 until episode 4 or 5, and although that is fixed later on it is not very good storytelling. I almost stopped watching half-way through and thought it both perplexing and kinda bad.

CGi first season is almost on 1990s level - looking very cheap at times, like Xena level of "monster" graphics, I think even I could have made better dragons. I assume Henry Cavill's moustache took all the money? Perhaps the biggest complaint from me though is that the acting is not good enough. When you try to tell a story in this disjointed way with multiple time lines and set in a fantasy world; the acting have to sell it, and enough of the time it does not.

Second season: All issues are fixed and this turns into a 9/10 show. Magnificent change. The acting is fantastic, with the beautiful and wonderful Freya Allan taking the acting crown. The CGi and monsters suddenly look okay/good, and that weird time jumping from first season does not exist anymore which automatically elevates the show further. Great storytelling, and great fantasy. We also get exposition and explanations so we know what is what and how this world look like which was lacking first season.

The only negative is that the focus is too much on the poor Elves and too much on boring talking politics. I get what they are trying to do and that they are expanding the world, but it slow down the pace too much and it is only saved by the great acting.

First season 5/10 Second season 9/10

This is definitely worth watching and please try to press through the weird time jumps and low production value first season, it is worth it.