There's a lot that's done well about the series, and I enjoy it on its own terms. However, I tend not to engage with it much fannishly, as some of the show's efforts to make Horatio more likeable invited shipping discourse upon the fandom, and I'm a bit resentful of the result.

(To wit: they created an OC to be friends with Horatio during a period where Horatio canonically had no friends, then when they got to the book where Bush arrives, they gave a lot of Bush's best material to the OC. Then when the OC was written out to bring the TV series back in line with the books, fans of the OC became resentful of Bush allegedly 'stealing' the OC's rightful place in the narrative, etc. etc. It's a big mess; I do not like; I try to avoid any part of it.)