I thought they did a pretty good job of sticking to the first half of book 1 for season 1. I considered paying for season 2 in order to watch the second half of the book as well, but haven't got around to that yet. I only watch TV when I'm running on the elliptical, and I usually try to exercise outdoors if possible, so there's really not a lot of TV watching for me. (I watched it on VUDU, because that doesn't require you to pay a monthly fee, but you can just pay for individual episodes and watch them at your leisure.)