I've not played the game nor read the books but I feel like this is one if the best dark series I've seen for a long time. Okay so cgi is not the best, neither acting nor plot, but it's hard to come by much better these days. I really do like the settings and cinematography, they lend their aesthetics to something resembling very much what it tries to be, a mythic, adventurous almost horror slash gore fantasy, and it does so beautifully.

I understand how reviews are conflicted, I can see that people do rank this out of fandom for sure. I guess it's just one of those either you like it or not. I kinda liked it, it's definitely not GoT but then again it never tried to be.