Review by m-gesing

Watching the first episode was a real challenge. The operetta-like and slightly surreal setting, which I think was meant to draw on Wes Anderson, give the show an almost poetic feel. Unfortunately, the plot, flat and lacking flair, is not only unattractive, but provokes the recurring question: what is the authors' point. Of course, this is not a historical film, but if the convention is to convince us that it takes place in some authoritarian central European state, then clearly the show's creators have not done their homework. For everything we wkemy about former communist states, or about today's regime in Russia or Belarus, is extremely distant from the vision we see in the Regime series.

Two stars for effort and salaries for artists.