The first episode is pretty good. After that, the show loses steam and at the end feels a little bit dragged out. Overall, it is well directed and the story has been modified in a smart manner, which makes you want to keep watching.

I had a problem with how cartoony and in-your-face the negative depictions of the members of the communist party are sometimes. I mean, I am convinced the portrayal of the USSR as a state ruled by fear and incompetency that led to its own destruction is pretty fair, and even then I still found that they made it look like cringe propaganda.

There's also a completely arbitrary minimum character limit, so there's that.