SillmarillionMotW

A very interesting and well-made film that should primarily be understood as a psychological portrait, and only secondarily as a historical film. Putin is portrayed as an absolutely evil man who willingly chooses to descend step by step into the depths of wickedness to satisfy his great ambitions and sadistic disposition.

On another level, it is a religious film, as it shows, on the one hand, God, who always wants to bestow goodness and mercy upon humanity, and on the other hand, a man, who consistently rejects God to choose power and evil instead.

The AI technique used to create Putin's artificial face is highly impressive.

Finally, there are also interesting jabs, such as how the actions of certain pro-Russian politicians (e.g., Merkel or Tusk) helped Putin.

The episode concentrates on Mary and Ava. The latter still behaves like a spoiled brat (which is weird considering her background) but the former is the real star of this one. Leading by example Mary shows Ava that there is more to life than only thinking about herself and Ava witnesses the beauty of a little local community gathered around the Church and the miracle of life. The scene with the sunset was particulary moving.

The writing on Lucy became dumb as hell. At the beginning she was a true historian, with tons of respect for the actual historical events she was witnessing. Now she is just an idiotic social justice warrior who tries to impose the reality of the XXI century on every other era. That is something no real scholar would do.

And so Lucy travels through time and behaves like a spoiled brat. In this episode she walks right into General Montgomery's tent (I mean sure, why not) and tells him what he must and must not do. She has no evidence for her claims. She acts like a freaking arrogant know-it-all. And what happens? Montgomery does as Lusy says. I mean, a 5 year old would write a better script.