YMMV / Nuremberg

• Awesome Music: Introitus from Mozart's Requiem during the executions.
• Moral Event Horizon: The four charges (conspiracy to wage aggressive war, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity) for the defendants. Göring, however, accuses the Allies of having crossed it more than once themselves.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The British prosecuter's opening statement, where he recites a diary entry by a German businessman who was witness to a mass extermination of Jews in the Ukraine in very vivid detail.
  • The concentration camps footage. The strange thing is that because it is real footage of actual concentration camps, it does something very weird to the fourth wall. Suddenly this isn't a miniseries you're watching anymore, this is the pain, suffering and deaths of millions of people you're looking at. In effect, the movie/miniseries act as a direct conduit to provide context for the footage, basically acting as a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant.
• So Okay, It's Average: General consensus is that the trial scenes and Brian Cox's Goring are excellent, but Alec Baldwin's Justice Jackson is something of a Vanilla Protagonist who hogs up screentime better spent on the war criminals in the dock.
• Romantic Plot Tumor: Almost one hour is dedicated to the love story between Jackson and his mistress.
• Values Dissonance: Jackson's affair with his secretary Elsie is played as a sweet heart warmer and is probably used as a way to ease the tension and horror of the Nuremberg trials. While there is no suggestion in the series that their feelings are anything other than entirely mutual — in fact, her feelings are shown first and he is only confirmed to reciprocate later — the power differential would raise a) eyebrows and b) concerns about an abuse of power in the 2010s.

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