Just finished the finale, what a goddam show. I love it when shows genuinely try to be historically accurate, and the show had great cinematography to go with it. The writing was almost universally good too, and I thought they did an incredible job keeping all the jargon simple while still getting us to understand the technicalities and what led up to the incident.
They also did a great job getting their messages across about the workplace culture and government censorship/pride without going too overboard and beating us over the head with it.
I have to say though I still think I really dislike the choice to go with english actors and accents - it sometimes made it hard to get in the moment and get immersed. I would have much preferred if they had the actors speaking Russian or whatever with subtitles, Narcos style.
Yes that might be less authentic for the few local Ukrainian viewers and allow them to get uppity about regional accents (like we see with all the smartasses when it comes to Narcos), but let's be honest almost everybody watching the show wouldn't be able to tell a lick of difference.
Ultimately I don't think the show quite deserves the spot of best show ever or 9.7 IMDB, but it was an experience I would absolutely recommend to everyone.
Edit: Oh yeah I didn't like how they condensed all the work of the many scientists into Khomyuk's character. It kinda trivialised the amount of work it must have taken if, in the show, one character was able to do it alone. I wish they would have shown it as a whole team with some of the scientists getting plucked off at random for daring to speak out and showing their sacrifice.
