So very disappointed in this series. Although the characters drifted quite a bit from the books, season 1 went pretty well but season 2 started with mediocre storyline and went to to total crapfest by the time I gave up on it and quit watching at the end of episode six. I never understand the reasons for companies getting the rights to a story and then destroying the plot.
Many of the changes in season 1 were annoying and pointless, especially the ones to just about all the secondary characters, but at least the story-re-telling in the first season wasn't bad for the most part. Unfortunately season 2 became totally illogical for the constructs of that world. The characters did just plain stupid things that were completely opposing their established personalities, even for for this version. Completely new unneeded characters were added, probably to drag the new lame storyline out longer and create bad, overly fakey tension. Sloppy writing like this, especially for really lame dramatic tension, really annoys me. So unless you want to waste a good 20 hours, skip this.