You should. Aside from its value as an intense and entertaining melodrama, and its high marks for presenting validated historical context, it forces us to look, in a clarifying and convincing way, at how limited our perceptions of ourselves are, how poorly we assess our own motives and our own capacities, and how contingent outcomes t…
You should. Aside from its value as an intense and entertaining melodrama, and its high marks for presenting validated historical context, it forces us to look, in a clarifying and convincing way, at how limited our perceptions of ourselves are, how poorly we assess our own motives and our own capacities, and how contingent outcomes turn out to be. And the writing and acting is really good. It is a melodrama and it does perhaps amp up personal conflict between characters, and several of the villains are (of necessity) overdrawn. But when you see people like Greitens, Hawley, and Stefanik in real life, those few characters are by no means implausible.
You should. Aside from its value as an intense and entertaining melodrama, and its high marks for presenting validated historical context, it forces us to look, in a clarifying and convincing way, at how limited our perceptions of ourselves are, how poorly we assess our own motives and our own capacities, and how contingent outcomes turn out to be. And the writing and acting is really good. It is a melodrama and it does perhaps amp up personal conflict between characters, and several of the villains are (of necessity) overdrawn. But when you see people like Greitens, Hawley, and Stefanik in real life, those few characters are by no means implausible.