Isten Árnyéka a Földön

It has good pacing, but the whole vibe makes it feel like it wants to be an Eastern European Game of Thrones instead of its own thing. I also dislike the opening credit, because of the rising castle, it's way too on the nose that they are trying to be GOT.

I also don't feel any connection to the characters, they are not entertaining in the slightest, however this is only the first episode, so it could change. I'm not sure how different are they in their source material, but there is not much chemistry, maybe it's the actors, maybe the story, but it feels a bit artificial to me. Some characters are also too trope-y, instead of having two dimensions, but maybe they are the same in the source material, so it is perhaps not the adaptation's fault.

The first episode contains every usual elememts which are needed for an entertaining medieval show with lot of conspiracy and war , - and this is one of the stories based on real historical events. The first episode briefly glimps into Hunyadi's childhood (providing a proper motivation for the character's later life) then it jumps to his first adventures and years as apprentice of the Serbian ruler. We are starting with a major warfare scene as ut should be, in order to set the tone. Most of the plot settings are placed cleverly, the characters are introduced in a good way. I especially liked the hommage they made to the Hunyadi family's flazon, which is a raven holding a ring in it's beak. The origin of the flazon is explained as a reference of Hunyadi's childhood catharzis. We are getting to know 2 women who are the most important lovw interests of the titular character, and also some antagonists, one of them is going to play a role simiar to "little finger" in GOTY. We are also getting some nude scenes which looks inevitable these days... All-in-all it is a good start - however sometimes we have the usual problem with hungarian actors, that their voice feel artifocal, "plastic", without real emotion. Luckily, this does not goes to every actory but in case of some actors, it is still quite embarassing. However, possibly dubbing makes it irrelevant in foreign versions.