I thought it was excellent. Great acting all round and was filled with suspense making it very difficult to stop watching at night 😃. The only thing I would say against it and I dont know whether this is down to budgeting but I would have loved to see some proper magic duels with special effects and so on. The scene where Merlin defeated Agravine I had this idea where Merlin could have encompassed him and Agravine in a ring of fire to have that conversation and when Agravine raised his sword to kill Merlin, I imagined a demon or a dragon or something coming out of the flames to drag him into it! I do think the series need that sort of thing but brilliant series nether the less.