It's hard to imagine how this complete muddle could have been made less informative, revealing or even interesting to try and get through. Apparently the decision was made (probably by the same typically European means of committees around tables where no one ever says what they mean because no one is sure who's really in charge) to make most of the 'story' about an extremely dull and irritating process of follow-up enquiry among representatives of the various nations involved.
The Swedes want to blame the Estonian crew (or something), the Finns want to blame the Russians (or something), the Germans want to blame the Finns (or something), and no one is even interested in hearing from the Estonians other than to cross-examine the one surviving crew member in very bad English by insinuating that he must have sunk the ship by having a crush on a girl in the galley (or something.)
I managed to wait out four episodes and part of the fifth, giving as much benefit of the doubt as I could, to assume that at some point we might start being shown something to do with a ship and why it sank.
But I think it was when one (Finnish? Who cares, by that point?) bureaucrat was arguing with another, three years later, in some courtyard outside yet another ugly building about leaks to the Germans (or something), and couldn't make himself heard over the other man's repulsive coughing fit having nothing at all to do with anything, that I realized there is no there, there: this confusing and meandering mess is not going to arrive at any story worth telling, if it hasn't already, more than four episodes in.
It came as no revelation to me that European bureaucrats are primarily engaged in international blameshifting and denials of their own accountability, which is all that is on display as this fractured and badly-edited script proceeds. So aside from that, I could not even tell what story it was this overly long insult to the victims and survivors of the actual shipwreck (which this is barely even about) was meant to tell us.
If you really must throw away several hours of your time being bored and confused and irritated by a story that isn't one and which leaves you less informed than you started out being, go ahead and sit through this. I guess there must be somebody out there who finds this sort of passive-aggressive Eurocratic soap operas interesting, but I'm not one of them.
