It's a big production trying to be a big thing so a little bit of prestige is certainly there but mostly just in the production value of it all. Not much boning going on for the most part and I can vaguely remember one torture scene over the course of three seasons and it's nothing very graphic. There isn't an evil smirking sociopath, most conflicts are either internal/interpersonal or humans vs nature driven, sometimes humans vs machine and of course in the background there is this more abstract humans vs human other (Soviet) thing going on. While they never really go into the pornographic, there is a whole lot of 'look at this big fucking rocket' phallic worship type of deal going on so I dunno if that bothers you