I think you've reached for the A grade too early; each episode improves noticeably on the one before (we've seen six in the UK so far), but the biggest jump is between this one and number four.
Five is the big one for the Childermassive, but I think six was even better - watch out for the catlady. The final episode is…

I agree with what you say, and it would be impossible for the series to do some things as well as the book does. I'd advise you, though, not to give up since the first two episodes are the weakest ones. Eps 4 and 5 are outstanding work and just as good as, though necessarily different from, the novel itself.

And he gets better. There's a scene between him and Strange in episode 5 that is serious mancrush-fuel.

Yes, it's fixed; I can sleep at last. Except for that damned ant-gravity.

No, that bit makes sense. What you'd have to plug in would be a preposition between 'born' and 'circumstances'.

What Happened To That Third Para?
The first sentence makes no sense, you use unrecognisable when you mean indistinguishable, and you'd have us believe that ant gravity can lift a city. It's like the work of a madman or a foreigner.
You've let all of us down, sir, but yourself most of all.

Nearly. All Scotsmen are born with handsome features and a cheerful outlook, which fade as we get older. Mine were completely gone by the time I started school.

Miserable? Dour?
Common misinterpretations of our Sophisticated Sadness.