Before watching this series, you need to discard all impressions of both the Rice book and the film with Cruz and Pitt. What we are presented with is an independent work.
According to people who read the book in the original, the Russian version of the translation is incredibly stopped, as well as the film of 1994. They also say that the series is closest to the book in essence, i.e. it is about same-sex love, like the novel.
If you analyze the series as a work of the cinematic genre, it is made perfectly, but with a bias to the demand of time in the West and the United States. If he pulls away from this, then you can enjoy the film: there is no wonder there is a zero series telling how the series was shot. And the work was painstaking.
I think he will get a lot of awards and deservedly.