Oh my God was this a beautiful surprise!
I honestly loved every minute of it & I'm still in a kind of haze.. and worn out.
Storytelling - pace.. just ace! And so beautifully executed.
The camera was insane. It had a graphic novel feel, some stills could be paintings... during a war flashback i thought i was in a flight simulator.. The set design was divine.
The music/sound department: the exact right amount of everything in the right color.
The actors: each character was perfectly casted. I don't know how they managed to make it so ...wholesome.
The whole composition was quite rich, never rushed though. Never been to russia - it really made me feel as if i was there at times.
You can just feel it. The horror of it all, war, humanity, this terrible incident... despair, the cold. I have to admit i was tearing up.
Also one has to note how they choose to include much of the "known evidence". The carvings in the trees along the way they hiked... the autopsies... I am not sure how much they deviated from the atmosphere depicted in their diaries though.
I could gush and gush - maybe because i was so deprived of good stuff the past 1,5 years... but check it out for yourself.
If you're not glued to the screen by the 2nd, 3rd episode, then there is probably really nothing for you to get out of.
I am wondering what the budget was?
To me, this was the best tv-present since The Terror.
I honestly loved every minute of it & I'm still in a kind of haze.. and worn out.
Storytelling - pace.. just ace! And so beautifully executed.
The camera was insane. It had a graphic novel feel, some stills could be paintings... during a war flashback i thought i was in a flight simulator.. The set design was divine.
The music/sound department: the exact right amount of everything in the right color.
The actors: each character was perfectly casted. I don't know how they managed to make it so ...wholesome.
The whole composition was quite rich, never rushed though. Never been to russia - it really made me feel as if i was there at times.
You can just feel it. The horror of it all, war, humanity, this terrible incident... despair, the cold. I have to admit i was tearing up.
Also one has to note how they choose to include much of the "known evidence". The carvings in the trees along the way they hiked... the autopsies... I am not sure how much they deviated from the atmosphere depicted in their diaries though.
I could gush and gush - maybe because i was so deprived of good stuff the past 1,5 years... but check it out for yourself.
If you're not glued to the screen by the 2nd, 3rd episode, then there is probably really nothing for you to get out of.
I am wondering what the budget was?
To me, this was the best tv-present since The Terror.