The series was absolutely brilliantly made and the score was spot on! Absolute fantastic job.
The show really tugged on a my heartstrings and stirred up some horrible memories. Especially the scene with fire-fighters... I've had radiotherapy treatment, it's really not nice. After 4 weeks the split skin and searing burns set in. When those guys looked into the core, they literally cooked from the inside out, instantly, but there would be a delay before a surge of pain hit. You don't feel it happening until your skin burns and splits. The pain must have been unimaginable pain. You continue to cook for days and weeks, the firefighters in the hospitle really got it bad.
What I liked about the show is the small details. Like when one of the firefighters could "taste" metal in the air, there's actually very small % of people who can "smell" the effects radation has on particles around. It's truely a disgusting smell, unfortunatly one of the ones who can "smell" it. If you've ever took a wiff of trioxygen, it's very similar.