Merlin, I hated this... 
 The writing was OK, boring sometimes, but quite impressive other times. 
 I might have enjoyed it more if: 
 - We could have had a deeper view of Serena's psichotic mind in action; 
 - Pemberton had more balls (figuratively speaking, of course); 
 - There were less explicit animal violence (I understand it's a faithful portrait of that time, but...); 
 - I could relate more to a character or two.