AMC takes on this classic with the kind of high-end production values we have come to see from them. An outstanding cast -- Jacob Anderson mesmerizes and Eric Bogosian plays a perfect foil -- makes you feel like you are watching a film, not a TV show. The story veers a good deal from the book but the quality of the script remains the same ... very rich and layered. It can also, at times, be laugh-out-loud funny. It is a series with layers. This is a show you watch, not work out to. Two episodes in, it is seriously growing on me. There is one major caveat. AMC, known for "Walking Dead", is pulling out the stops on the gore factor, which is deeply not my thing. In the end it will come down to great acting and storytelling vs being physically repelled by the violence on the screen. Which will win out, I do not know.
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