I just saw this comment (two months later :)), but I wanted to say that the busy wallpaper in every room is very much accurate. The wallpaper patterns, however, are not very typical and are one of the details I'd say is "off". As for the gloomy darkness, this *could* have been accurate — square footage in Soviet…

As someone who was a kid in Moscow in the 1980s, and who also analyzes films and TV as part of my job, it's a special pleasure to watch the USSR scenes this season. A handful of the details are off, but there are more than enough astonishing touches, that I quietly applaud the art direction every episode. The…