I’ll wait until some people watch the first season, and see what they think.
As for fantasy, I liked Tolkien and a series of books called Dragonlance by Hickman and Weis.
You and I have the same tastes, then. Tolkien is really the ONLY fantasy I ever truly enjoyed — and still to this day — but the Dragonlance series wasn’t bad. In general, I don’t really enjoy fantasy or sci-fi all that much — I’m mostly a history (WWII) geek.