

58 minSeason 1 • Episode 2
LatestKelso is led unwittingly through murder and intrigue towards his own personal Holy Grail, Joseph Stalin's secret legacy, a legacy that could change the face of Russian history forever.
Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives, receives in his hotel a very unexpected visitor.
Acting
Craig's dissipated academic energy is weirdly perfect
Cinematography
Moscow winter looks genuinely punishing
Writing
Harris adaptation keeps the novel's paranoid pulse
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Robert Harris's 1998 novel; Harris also wrote Fatherland and Enigma.
The 'Stalin's notebook' premise riffs on real suppressed Soviet archives that didn't fully open until decades later.