YMMV / Monday Begins on Saturday

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Cristobal Junta is far, far more popular than the protagonists.
• Fridge Horror: Vybegallo's antics seem way less funny once one understands that Vybegallo is modeled after Trofim Lysenko, the infamous Soviet politico and quack agriculturist/geneticist, whose machinations were responsible for the destruction of several scientists' careers (and sometimes their lives, as with Nikolai Vavilov).
• The Woobie: Janus Nevstruev, the director of the institute.

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