I am facing a bit of a dilemma with my assessment of this show.

The production quality is through the roof, the costumes, the sets, the detail is phantastic. It´s beautiful at times even artful. The cast ist brilliant, first and foremost Eva Green of who I am a big admirer. She´s the reason I started to watch this and boy, she is amazing. Plus, I like the style and look of the period. Still, after every episode I wondered why to continue and after the second season I ran out of reason to be honest. I just didn´t want to continue just to watch Eva and the plot did't interest me that much. Simply not my genre. And as mentioned many times before it is slow in it's developement. Also I think there are too many characters vying for attention and in a way they all take away from each other or distract from what I considered the main arc. The Frankenstein plot could have been a show on its own, opposed to that Dorian Grey was rather uninteresting. Then you have werewolfs, vampires, witches, the Devil - it all seems a bit too much. Like they wanted to see how much they could throw together at the same time. Now, I never read the classics and I admit I might be missing the point of the story completely but I strugled to find meaning or sense in the story. If this would have been a, say, 50+ episode show I might have even been out after the first season.

So please bear in mind that my rating of the show is very subjective and please don't let it discourage you to watch it.