Equally ahead, I'm thrilled! So far I've only seen part 1 but WOW! The actors who were reportedly having chosen by the writer himself fit wonderfully into the roles. One gets to after all the novels of course a very accurate picture of the two, so I'm really happy that they were so well taken. The surroundings with the beautiful landscape is exactly the image that I had in mind. Surely you could have done even a very good multi-part movie from the books. But a series is even better because you longer has anything about it in this case. One may certainly be interesting to see how the implementation of this world-class novels continues.
My tip: First read the novels, at least the first first, then behold the series.