I love the books so much...so I was really disappointed with the series. When you read the books you start to get a feel for what Harry would look like...his attitude....and his general comportment. You also get a feel for how Karrin Murphy would look...and her general attitude and comportment. You even get a feel for Bob...and how his skull would look and talk. Then along comes the series...and everything has changed. I recognize that things can be better fleshed out in a book....but come on! Everyone...especially Murphy...just didn't ring true.
I'm afraid that's what happens when you let TV executives get hold of a script and make changes. If I had my way....Jim Butcher would have been executive producer of the series...answering to no one....and if his idea of what the series should look like doesn't float...then so be it. But I just got the sense that someone who hadn't read the series...or didn't care...had the final word on the project....and seriously dropped the ball.
Maybe they should try an "IT"-type mini-series for one of the books...and see what they can do with that.

As a reader from over the pond I can only agree with your sentiments, It seems to me that's what "Hollywood " does on a regular basis,Take a perfectly good story and screw it over with what some unknown bunch of scriptwriters think would be most palatable to the general audience. For instance the Hockey stick (lame), The 4 x 4 replacing the beloved Beetle (don't tell me youv'e run out of aircooled VDubs), Bob (was the actor someone's out of work brother).

If your going to make a TV series at least try and stay true to "some" of the important stuff in the books otherwise what's the point.

I love Jims work and always will but the TV series is a goner and it's better for that.