It's a...little Prestige TV in that the first part of the first Season is watching half the US astronaut core go into an alcohol and misogyny-fueled death spiral over the Soviets getting to the moon first.
There's some 60s 70s "Things were different then" edginess, and the Soviets are framed as oppressive in an annoying way (season 2 has a very cringe sub-plotline about a defector) but really they do nothing worse than the US does.
It's just heavily focused on the USA and you only get occasional peeks in at what the SU is doing (winning because they still have the Chief Designer, the PoD (from what the showrunners say) is that Korolev didn't go to the gulag, so didn't have the enmity with the engine makers, and so he doesn't get cancer and the N1 succeeds.)
It's a...little Prestige TV in that the first part of the first Season is watching half the US astronaut core go into an alcohol and misogyny-fueled death spiral over the Soviets getting to the moon first.
There's some 60s 70s "Things were different then" edginess, and the Soviets are framed as oppressive in an annoying way (season 2 has a very cringe sub-plotline about a defector) but really they do nothing worse than the US does.
It's just heavily focused on the USA and you only get occasional peeks in at what the SU is doing (winning because they still have the Chief Designer, the PoD (from what the showrunners say) is that Korolev didn't go to the gulag, so didn't have the enmity with the engine makers, and so he doesn't get cancer and the N1 succeeds.)
Might be bearable. Thanks for the info.