miromoman

I approached this show with poor expectations. Just to let myself be entertained for twenty minutes. Indeed, at first sight this looked like one of those low-budget internet TV series for a young generation suffering from low attention spam.

What I actually encountered is absolutely brilliant and delightful. Fresh, provocative, sparkling, funny and very original.

Quite obviously, something like this could only work with a very solid cast and I must confess I have always appreciated Arquette's talent, but this is another dimension all together. The entire thread, in its minimalism, rests on her shoulder and she leads wonderfully with a consistent support from her fellow colleagues.

The cherry on the cake for an irregular but very interesting career. I expect she should receive some sort of award for this. She deserves it.

Best viking epopoeia since Valhalla Rising, another raw jewel. One even more astounding and, thus, with a lower IMDB score.

This film is brilliant and unique in so many dimensions that we would not know how to start to describe it without spoiling it.

True, it may look hyper-simplistic to the ignorant eye, but let's not let ourselves be fooled.

Embedded with magic realism, this is the real deal. This is evolutionary, anthropological, oneiric, pure, wild.

Unadulterated life.

It is no wonder that those fed on Hollywood cheesy crap and the woke puritans hate it so much.

A few great actors too, not all, unfortunately.

And that is all I wanted to say but now it seems I need to fill some never-ending six hundred characters in here.

The politics are silly, there is no character building whatsoever, no mystery, no sense of humor and the dialogues will bore you into a slumber.

Combine that with poor acting, pathetic special/computational effects and a general darkness to cover the general poor quality of it all.

Without comparing it to Martin's books or the previous series, this is absolutely unwatchable.

Worse than the last seasons of GoT. The complete opposite of Martin's original material.

Being a fan of the genre I can stand a mediocre product if it is at least entertaining. This is not. It is just a failed attempt to keep milking the GoT cow.