I find the idea of making one of the most famous and the most versatile artists of world history the center of a series is absolutely great. However, the anticipation fades as soon as the first images flicker across the TV screen. One-dimensional performer in the computational design environment; Here Florence. The animations and effects are as bad as one would never expect from a production of David S. Goyer. The animations look as if they had been stolen from "Assassin's Creed". Only in "Assassin's Creed" the effects are brilliant and realistic, almost photo realistic. Where, however, with "Da Vinci's Demons" are checked off all the movements and spindly. The setting is immediately recognized as computer generated. The animated people in long shots to move so fake, as I last saw it in PlayStation 2 games. All effects, like the first flight with the flying machine at the beginning of the first episode or the flight of mechanical dove, have been copied in 90s style subsequently into the picture and the very clear and amateurish.
So you constantly feel like you live a dilletantischen Thaeteraufführung in and you never have a chance, in the scenes of "immerse" and "doing" to be.