I thoroughly enjoyed the first season on Prime, 1 year into the covid-19 pandemic - and I mention that because in the last year of lockdowns and quarantines, I've watched an awful lot of World War Two documentaries.
The creators have indeed paid only passing attention to many details, deliberately and overtly focusing on only a handful of the major players to keep the timeline moving without getting bogged down in details of which gun/plane/tank was invented when, nor when exactly Patton got his last star. The show doesn't make a big deal of mentioning that so-and-so would have flown in a Lancaster not a Mosquito, it just depicts an image of a plane for a few seconds. Nitpicking accuracy has it's place, but at 80 years after the fact I couldn't give a toss that the plane depicted is a Sopwith Camel and they weren't invented until two years *after* the Battle of Minutae. I note that no-one has complained that there is little to no mention of the usual German chorus line, Goering, Goebbels, Rommel, Heydrich... nor does this or most World War documentaries mention that Nikita Kruschev was at Stalingrad.
I enjoyed it for what is was, it's not often I've seen a documentary that looks and sounds different from the endless reels of the same old footage of familiar battles.
Overall, I think these first three 90 minute episodes do give a good overall summary of not only WW2, but how WW1 and the conditions in Europe after that Great War, particularly in Germany, created a fertile ground for nationalists that ultimately led to the Second World War. Don't expect the Wehrmacht's buttons to be authentic period and you won't be too crushed.
Overall, I think these first three 90 minute episodes do give a good overall summary of not only WW2, but how WW1 and the conditions in Europe after that Great War, particularly in Germany, created a fertile ground for nationalists that ultimately led to the Second World War. Don't expect the Wehrmacht's buttons to be authentic period and you won't be too crushed.