It's good, not yet great, but orders of magnitude better than other fantasies like ROP and The Witcher.

Unfortunately, I don't really have emotional attachments to the current cast of characters, so if(when) one of them bites the dust, I'm more interested in the spectacle but don't feel the emotional toll. The only characters I did feel this was was for Viserys and Rhaenyra before the time jump. The old actress had this swagger that made her compelling while the new actress simply doesn't.

First season was still an 8/10 for me just because it revitalized a franchise that I considered dead, and it's very well produced.