It's brilliant
Sets, locations, actors and costumes look stunning. There are multiple protagonists, most of whom are neither wholly evil or completely good, and since this is a brutal Mediaeval-style world, any one of them could die suddenly and horribly (and they do.)
The fantasy elements are secondary to the complex plot, and used sparingly, so that when they do happen we share the characters' awe and fear.
I'm not a sword n sorcery fan, but I'm totally hooked on it. We're 3 episodes into the 4th series, and already a major character has died horribly, setting the plot off on another tangent. I bloody love it!
(, Sun 27 Apr 2014, 15:54, Reply)
