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Well, I thought it was pretty entertaining, but the season is pretty short. If you liked Eric Northman in True Blood saying "[...] these humans [...]" with disdain, then you'll probably like him doing it in this as well! =) Sometimes I can't tell if he's acting poorly, or he's really good at acting like an uncanny valley humanoid.
I haven't read the books, but as a whole I found season one both funny and insightful. I particularly like how they're able to convey the open and progressive social norms of the scientists as both good and ridiculous at the same time. It's a much more neutral and nuanced viewing experience compared to a lot of "entertainment" these days where the creators need to force their own political views into everything - and let the story suffer for it.
Regarding the acting; We have a robot which looks like a human, even has a perfectly anatomically correct face, because it needs to fit into society to be useful and therefor needs to act like a human (just like how people prefer chatbots to be human-like), but it isn't actually human.
But this particular robot has "evolved" to actually be a lot like humans, maybe even essentially being human. However, he has to act like he's not really like a human, and only human-like in order to survive, but this is a new experience for him so he sucks at both dealing with his human emotions and acting like he doesn't have any.
And then this character has to be played by the actual real human Alexander Skarsgård, who now has to act like he's a robot who's only kinda like a human but secretly actually being an emotionally adolescent human while pretending, poorly, to only be human-like.