This is far from good, even decent beginning of this long awaited epic series.
Such complex historical characters are completely undeveloped preventing spectators from being emotionally involved in the story. Dialogues are empty, not convincing enough and pointless on many ocassions.
Costumes and photography cannot bridge all the gaps which are huge, particularly in terms of script and acting. Judging the first episode, I cannot conclude what the idea of the authors was, because this looks more like an educational program.
In my opinion, the only good moment in the entire episode was the scene of Stefan Nemanja in captivity praying to Saint George. This is too little and not nearly enough.
I respect the effort ot the authors, but they had a brilliant example from the past how historical series of such genre and complexity should look like. Thus, an epic saga on the life of Vuk Karadzic that was filmed 30 years ago set hardly reachable artistic standards while series on Nemanjics apparently turned from that path at the very beginning offering an below average outcome.
I do hope that situation will improve in later episodes, but I am afraid the damage has alredy been done.
