(Also, remember when movie wolves were just trained dogs shoddily, unconvincingly made-up to look like the real thing? Still preferable to the chunky, plodding cgi versions in this film.)

What about FRONTIERS OF PANDORA?!

* correction: "Gagner la guerre" is just one novel, not a series.

And, of course, it ends on a cliffhanger. I hope the deal for a second season's already in the bag, otherwise it's going to end up a pretty futile enterprise.

(Why is this region in the South of France so isolated yet able to sustain two huge, populous cities? What's happening in the rest of the country? What's with the King? Why would a stout walled city fear an attack by an army of mutilated, starving, dehydrated zealots armed with cudgels and scythes?)

I mean... it's not even a bad show per se! Production values are nice! It looks solid (if a bit drably sepia) most of the time. But it's far too stretched-out for its own good and none of the characters are likable. The worldbuilding is frustratingly vague, and not in a mysterious, appealing way.

(Even stranger to learn that the story's apparently culled from a series of French fantasy novels -"Gagner la guerre "- that are originally set in a completely fictional world. All the names have been changed and the fantasy's been stripped back to the bare minimum.)