The series revolving around a major historical character, a Hungarian warlord and governor who lived in the 1400's and played a pivotal role in defending medieval Hungary against the Ottoman attacks at the time. Despite the series is Hungarian, it is obviously aiming international viewers, this is well recognizable by the number of fights, war scenes, conspiracies, and even nude scenes. Even the main title was created with fancy CGI, little bit after the likes of Shogun or GOTY.
At this point , only the two pilot episodes have aired, but we might have a feeling of the tone. It is starting with a relatively larger war scene, also giving a background to the titular character's motivation in the form of a childhood tragedy, plus giving an allegory to the Hunyadi family's Raven sigil. We are going tobve introduced to the hero, the old king, the 2 main love intererests (one of them is a femme fatale with a tragic fate), and some antagonist, amongst one is going to be the main conspirator, just like "little finger" was in GOTY. During the first episode we are also getting a second war scene (which is faily generous that we are getting two in one episode and they are not robbing our time with going-to-nowhere boring conversations)
Probably it is fair to say the series has a very strong historical background but the way of the visual presentation and plot setting is heavily influenced by Game of Thrones - possibly with the aim of promoting Hungarian history amongst other nations as well.
In most aspects the creators done a great job. The plot seems mostly OK, the visuals are on the level of the usual international shows (however, at this point we are still waiting for a really spectacular war scene; it isblike tge first season of Vikings compared to later seasons); but we might say they used the budget well. The conspiracies are fairly interesting during the first two episodes. There are some cons as well: the plot mainly OK, but there are some minor holes, like the titular character falls too soon in love with the second main love interest, and could have grief longer because he is denied to have the love of the first one; the visuals usually good, but sometimes could be better (I am looking at the throne rooms), there are many good actors, but some of them just not provide an enough convincing play. Fanni Töröcsik should be mentioned as a positive example, she is a very suggestive female character, "chains" the viewer's eyes with her acting. Sometime the voice of the actors is a bit "lifeless" not containing enough emotion in Hungarian language; this is a fairly common problem nowadays with Hungarian film acting, but this might be solved with dubbing, so foreign viewers probably will not have this issue.
Probably the number of the sex scenes or nude scenes is a bit too much, but of course the show is aiming to have international audience and they must have felt it is a necessity. It is a bit interesting, that the second episode even contains a lesbian scene, which is surprising, considering where the funding comes from; - however it is almost a copy of a specific Game of Thrones scene with the young Daenerys,- so again, obviously aiming for a larger audience. We are also having our main conspirator, whonis a historical figure, but the preeebtation of the character is heavily based on "Little Finger"; - and this Historical character is interesting, but not as compelling yet as his GOTY counterpart.
All-in-all, after first 2 episodes, it is a promising series, and I am definitely going to follow the new episodes. At least it will be an interesting and mainstream presentation of Hungarian history.
