Watched it and agree with your comments.

Initially, I was quite interested in the ideas being put forward, as the episodes progressed things seemed to drag for me and I lost interest.

Maybe I'm on the wrong side of history but the whole Russia stuff is one of the few conspiracy theories that I am well and truly sick of, and can't get on board with at all.

They tried , in my opinion, to force the Russia thing too much, like this is the one and only reason/answer to all the problem/question we raise in the series.