I watched the first episode, and although I quite liked the lead characters, I became amazingly bored and then annoyed with the overly-stylised gore / violence. Once or twice, as a highlight, I could have handled, but it was like a whole other character in the show - to me, anyway.

Did that aspect settle down at all? I could see definite potential, but not enough to go back for episode two.

There were definite shades of the old 70s Caligula - not that that's an altogether bad thing. ;)

:D