I could not even get past the first episode. It was disgustingly gory and violent, but the gore and violence was shallow and gratuitous because no time had been spent developing the characters first. At least in the original GOT (which I am a HUGE fan of), there was character development almost immediately which made you invested in the characters, and thus invested in their opposing ends. GOT was super violent and gory too, but at least there were notions like honor, pride in one's family, coming to terms with one's history, star-crossed lovers, etc. I saw none of that here and will not finish the series because of it.