I should have stopped watching as soon as Rowen started her snivelling histrionics, what an incredibly poor central character (I'm so happy that none of my doctors, surgeons or nurses are so emotionally weak minded). The potential storyline, costumes, locations, sets, colour and incredible scenery held me for 3 episodes, thinking it was going to get better. I skipped from episode 3 to watch episode 8 to realise that it just got worse. I never read the books.