Byron is intentionally difficult: clever, vicious, selfish, funny, and morally questionable. That complexity is admired by many, though some viewers found the main character hard to like.
Pros: story quality, main cast performance
Cons: audience appeal, age appropriateness
Character consistency is a recurring weakness. Several reviews say romantic choices and supporting-character behavior feel forced or out of character, although Gabriel’s smaller arc earns praise for feeling more genuine.
Pros: character development, entertainment value
Cons: character balance, story quality
A few critics flag inconsistent character behavior and logic as part of the show's uneven writing.
Pros: genre satisfaction, acting quality
Cons: writing quality, CGI quality
At least one critical take finds Isabelle’s later changes too abrupt, describing them as heel-turns rather than properly developed arcs.
Pros: visual style, character development
Cons: faithfulness to source material, season pacing
Ashur’s characterization is a major fault line: some see a believable alternate-timeline evolution, while harsher reviews say he behaves far less cunningly and consistently than the original character.
Pros: franchise connection, character development
Cons: story quality, sexual content level
Character behavior drew criticism when familiar figures felt rewritten, abruptly changed, or inconsistent with earlier seasons and source portrayals.
Pros: action quality, villain quality
Cons: entertainment value, faithfulness to source material
Multiple reviews complain that motivations and characterization shift without enough connective tissue, a problem often linked to the troubled production and compressed edit.
Pros: main cast performance, production design
Cons: character development, season pacing