I had my reservations whilst going into TQG. What is it really going to be about? How will it portray its female characters? How lifelike and detailed will be the backdrop - chess?

Generally I liked this mini-series. At times it felt rushed but contained most of the main plot points that you would expect. The show definitely had more room than a two-hour long film. Despite that some of the conflicts were resolved in a timely fashion leaving not enough room to actually sink in. This is true to both people and substance-related things. In the end what bothered me the most is the fact that only a couple of years went by by the end of the story. I am not sure whether it is an oversight or not but some of the characters hints at the passing of time more heavily than it is justified. At one point one of them even mentions their first meeting being two years earlier than it was actually. For me the compressed nature of the timeline and the reactions were not aligned well enough which distracted me midway through the show. Other than this I had fun with TQG and I think this is indeed a quality show if somewhat hamstrung by its limited runtime.