The first two episodes were moderately engaging, as the British authorities conduct their investigation into Litvinenko's mysterious poisoning. But once the mystery is solved and we learn that the culprits cannot be brought to justice in the UK, we're then subjected to two more episodes tediously depicting legal efforts to "prove to the world" what everybody already knows. The big dramatic courtroom scene in which Putin and the Russian government are tried in absentia was laughably banal and totally anticlimactic.
The series is clearly intended to propagandize viewers into supporting NATO's proxy war in Ukraine, and I guess it achieves that goal. But do we really need to watch four hours of melodrama in order to be convinced that Putin is a bad guy?
The series is clearly intended to propagandize viewers into supporting NATO's proxy war in Ukraine, and I guess it achieves that goal. But do we really need to watch four hours of melodrama in order to be convinced that Putin is a bad guy?