The Sleepers (2019)
5/10
Bleak, bleak, bleak....but promising.
29 May 2021
Laughed out loud when noticing series specifications saying that this series was in colour!! Presumably, the atmosphere and very appearance of Czechoslavakia at the time is faithfully portrayed here but were all the citizens as represented by characters here so dour, bleak and devoid of humour?

Am prepared to stick with the series although a major implausibility (woman gets thrown in the air from direct collision with car, massively injured but up and about in two days seeking answers to her dilemma) is very annoying. Compounding the implausibility here is the unbelieveable depiction of incident involving the kidnapping, threatened torture, interrogation and eventual return of the female cultural attache. This was followed by the completely heartless and heedless dismissal of said attache by her British superiors and her ejection from Czechoslavakia. These flaws in plot are jarring and hopefully will be kept to a minimum!

Perhaps I'll be able to update the rating to a higher score by series end but finding the going very tough at the moment.
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