A mostly accurate story marred by some truly awful acting at times. It's interesting enough even if it does sometimes bend the truth and choose to follow the well disputed path.

Con O'neill's Pantomime villain, Bryukhanov belongs in a school production and Jared Harris' character is unbelievably boring. But, Jessie Buckley, Stellen Skarsgard and to a lesser extent, Emily Watson do a decent job.

Some of the CGI is good, some is terrible.

It's a reasonably good program, but it's not as endearing as band of brothers, ironically less believable than a Game of Thrones and less politically interesting than Boardwalk empire.

Despite it being one of the most scary and fascinating moments in human history, no one will remember this series in 5 years.