I think this is really lovely television, working in a space that I suspect many people find challenging, but with far less hand-holding than I expected, and a kind of fearlessness at 'being found out' I could stand to see more of. It felt like the time was taken to tell the story, how they wanted, and that was it.

On a lot of networks/services, this would have been at least ten episodes, if not twelve over two seasons, and instead there's just...the story they set out to tell. Which is remarkably refreshing.

If it had weakness, it was song choices. Not the score, the score is brilliant, but there is this dalliance with sixties-through-seventies acoustic boomer garbage that made the middle section somewhat punishing to watch - it felt like the studio stepping in, demanding *some* connection to the kind of old people who are nostalgic for the sixties, who lately seem to be the demographic most sought after in these dramas. In a program of great balance and intentionality, it was really distracting.

But it wasn't the whole time, and it didn't stop me.

Gosh, what a lovely thing. Cast was outstanding, across the board. I had so many reservations about the setting, and some of the tone of the early episodes, I thought I'd happened onto a piece of media I was really going to dislike - but it was all towards a purpose. Highly recommend this.