They make the most of it, production is a little underwhelming plus budgeted but the premise is pretty decent. The ideology of the series is really the only thing that kept me watching past the first episode otherwise it's really nothing special. It starts off already in the middle of things with no introductions to the character or world the show's based in; howbeit, it isn't complex so you catch on pretty quickly on what's what. The story is close to "A discovery of witches" calibre, everything else however, the writing, acting, budget, plot and production, isn't anything to behold. A couple episodes in I let myself get invested in the characters and I'm enjoying it better. I never heard of the books until now and a lot of the reviews go on about how this is nothing like them and not as good; and I get it because in the proper hands or even just a bigger studio this really could be something better. I didn't really go in with high expectations. So from what others have said if you're a fan of the books you might not enjoy it, but as someone who hasn't read them, despite this being subpar compared to others in the genre like 'The Originals' or 'discovery of witches' etcetera, I'm still interested enough to keep on watching. It's not great, neither is it "1/10" terrible. Just one of those typical IMDb cases were if someone doesn't like something they go straight to 1 star and if they love it it's a 10, just extremes. Objectively speaking it's probably like a 4 (or 3 if you're being really critical), just added an extra 1 as someone who likes seeing new fantasy concepts even if it's just tweaks to what's already there.

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