[materiallie]

I thought the show was horrible. It was moralistic, quite on the nose, and the dialogue was pretty corny. There were a lot of obvious appeals to your average NYT and Atlantic type viewer, which is surely the main factor behind its critical acclaim.

[watwut]

I found the dialog fairly realistic. Maybe because I grew up in a similar country - it sounded like real world people talk.

Also, events and actions were close to how reality unfolded with simplified cast of characters, basically.

[lukan]

Simplified characters and strongly amplified and invented extra drama and events.

[man8alexd]

I worked in the soviet nuclear industry (Sredmash) in the 1980s.

The dialogs and characters are completely unrealistic and made me cringe. Everyone looks overemotional and infantile.

The hierarchical interactions are comical - a minister would never go to talk to miners, he would just phone a subordinate and tell them to organize people, they don't need armed soldiers present to enforce something, it is not the Wild West. The authors have no clue about the soviet mentality and how soviet society operated.

[gf000]

Well, how else would you show a minister giving a command to n layers of people before going to the miners on a drama show?

[man8alexd]

Easy but boring. Realistically, the workers would be gathered in a hall and their immediate boss would give a speech: "The party and the government want you to serve the Motherland at this heroic moment and volunteer for a hard job. Whoever goes gets apartments ahead of the waiting list".