By far my favorite thing about this show is that it wastes no fucking time. I feel like everything happens at a lightning pace, and that's kind of refreshing compared to Game of Thrones, where everything takes forever to happen. I'm on episode four of season two and so much shit has happened already. Game of Thrones would have taken like three seasons to cover the amount of shit that has already gone down in season two of this show, and I'm not even five minutes into the fourth episode.
I also think the guy who plays Uhtred is gradually getting better and better in the role. And the ending of episode three was fucking great. Actually the entire second half of episode three was great.