The one thing I kept asking myself through out this entire series is: Whats the point of making this show about an extremely well known event when almost all of it is just made up nonsense. This isn't even "well some characters are made up and are a combination of multiple to save time" .. no this is just straight up insanity at some points. Are we supposed to walk away thinking all these scientists are just morons? They couldn't even work together on the most simple things from day 1? But in reality it was one of the most amazing feats of teamwork and a modern country getting behind a single goal and working towards it together. This show is almost like making a show about the Apollo moon landings and the two years leading up to it.. except everyone is backstabbing each other, the bosses and generals are evil, everyones having sex with eachother, neil armstrong purposely sabotages a test flight, and on the day of the takeoff buzz aldrin climbs the to the top of the ship and just starts unplugging stuff mumbling about "gotta give the russians a fair chance or we will be the only ones meeting aliens".
The real story is interesting enough but instead its just sprinkled in so someone with no prior knowledge of this will have no idea whats true or not. So what is the point? If they wanted to just use this moment/event as a backdrop to tell a really interesting fictional story then ok lean into it and just be up front about it. Instead its both and u just dont know what to believe. Oppenheimer is in the show here and there but who is running the show at Trinity? Some random fake character who they had lead the whole thing.. while oppenheimer pouts in his car.. and appoints the backstabbing sex crazed only woman scientist to fly to Tianin and coordinate the hiroshima bombing. So did that really happen? No.. it didnt. Its just rewriting history for no reason as this does nothing for her character. By the end the audience feels for Frank and is on his side. Compared to literally every other character on the show hes the only one who the viewer can root for.. everyone else is just insane or unrealistic. And frank was the best acted role by a mile.
There came a point when charles isaacs wife.. the head man's bisexual ex-wife.. where she does the fourth or fifth messed up thing that no one watching would agree with. But then they almost want u to empathize with her and make her into some sort of victim or hero fighting the good fight. But she herself was THE WORST person ever.. why would we feel bad for her? Her husband goes on a work trip one weekend.. to a nuclear reactor to help win the war. Possibly the most important vacation taken in the country that weekend. And she somehow got so jealous in just a few hours (after being obsessed and having sex with him nonstop for months) that she goes to a bar and has a lesbian experience that night. This little housewife then ruins her female lovers family and life, their love, her marriage, eavesdrops on seemingly everyone whenver she wanted, blackmailed them, threatened a woman on the phone leading to her suicide, and met her husbands estranged father just to get offended when he suggests going into business together after the war. But she has more money than she can ever spend from her family.. so she doesn't understand that is.. well thats literally the American spirit and capitalism. Maybe would have brought him and her husband back together again with a family business. Instead she throws the money in his dad's face and says heartbreaking things to him bc thats what she does. She is death. Destroyer of worlds. Thats how the show should have ended.. with the trinity explosion reflecting in her eyes as she transforms into satan.
Because the show just ENDS when the mushroom cloud appears. And the most loveable character shoots himself in the head. As the spy gets away AGAIN. And thats the series.. thats it. Just ends at ep10 of season2 because only 1,000 ppl were watching this show every week. In the end.. i enjoyed most of the show.. because i had my hand on the fast forward button to skip all the stupid relationship nonsense and other frustrating things.
The real story is interesting enough but instead its just sprinkled in so someone with no prior knowledge of this will have no idea whats true or not. So what is the point? If they wanted to just use this moment/event as a backdrop to tell a really interesting fictional story then ok lean into it and just be up front about it. Instead its both and u just dont know what to believe. Oppenheimer is in the show here and there but who is running the show at Trinity? Some random fake character who they had lead the whole thing.. while oppenheimer pouts in his car.. and appoints the backstabbing sex crazed only woman scientist to fly to Tianin and coordinate the hiroshima bombing. So did that really happen? No.. it didnt. Its just rewriting history for no reason as this does nothing for her character. By the end the audience feels for Frank and is on his side. Compared to literally every other character on the show hes the only one who the viewer can root for.. everyone else is just insane or unrealistic. And frank was the best acted role by a mile.
There came a point when charles isaacs wife.. the head man's bisexual ex-wife.. where she does the fourth or fifth messed up thing that no one watching would agree with. But then they almost want u to empathize with her and make her into some sort of victim or hero fighting the good fight. But she herself was THE WORST person ever.. why would we feel bad for her? Her husband goes on a work trip one weekend.. to a nuclear reactor to help win the war. Possibly the most important vacation taken in the country that weekend. And she somehow got so jealous in just a few hours (after being obsessed and having sex with him nonstop for months) that she goes to a bar and has a lesbian experience that night. This little housewife then ruins her female lovers family and life, their love, her marriage, eavesdrops on seemingly everyone whenver she wanted, blackmailed them, threatened a woman on the phone leading to her suicide, and met her husbands estranged father just to get offended when he suggests going into business together after the war. But she has more money than she can ever spend from her family.. so she doesn't understand that is.. well thats literally the American spirit and capitalism. Maybe would have brought him and her husband back together again with a family business. Instead she throws the money in his dad's face and says heartbreaking things to him bc thats what she does. She is death. Destroyer of worlds. Thats how the show should have ended.. with the trinity explosion reflecting in her eyes as she transforms into satan.
Because the show just ENDS when the mushroom cloud appears. And the most loveable character shoots himself in the head. As the spy gets away AGAIN. And thats the series.. thats it. Just ends at ep10 of season2 because only 1,000 ppl were watching this show every week. In the end.. i enjoyed most of the show.. because i had my hand on the fast forward button to skip all the stupid relationship nonsense and other frustrating things.
