First season was great but then second season felt like 3 episodes stretched out over 8 with them repeating the same plotline over and over as though they ran out of money. And they botched what was a Red Wedding type hype plot to a forgettable one nobody cared about.

Book is finished and House of the Dragon only covers a small portion of Fire and Blood. So I finished it through the book. The writing was just not good for the show and it relied heavily on special effects of the dragons to do the heavy lifting.