I read the books decades ago, but this review is simply my impression of the tv series.
The worst thing about this show is the 12 year old they cast as the main protagonist, Rowan Mayfair. Wait. She's not 12, you say? Could have fooled me the way she cries and sniffles and flushes her way through every dang scene! And that voice. That constant self-doubt. Maybe she's 12.5 years, because I find it unfathomable that Anne Rice would have created such a weak, whiny character who is supposed to be a grown woman and top notch surgeon. I find it hard to fathom, I tell ya! Her scenes with John Huston (brilliant in Boardwalk Empire) have pedophiliac vibes because Alexandra Daddario is not believable as a grown woman! Is this her fault or the director's? In any case she is horrible horribly miscast. I guess this is what we get from a female backed production intent on replacing the male gaze with the female gaze, but I have to say, as a female, if this is the best they can do, then all hail to the male gaze, because we could certainly use something like that in this series. I'm extremely disappointed in this series and very disappointed the women behind did not have enough balls to give their main character a pair.