Explosive Premiere: Manhattan

The WGN America network that brought you Salem earlier this year has an updated stories about American history that hopefully adheres to the facts a little better.  Consider the new series, Manhattan, premiering July 27th, as Mad Men with a bomb.  And I say this because the visuals of the period are supposed to be as spectacular, though what they are ginning up will literally blow your socks off.  This is the story of America's construction of the atomic bomb in the 1940s in the New Mexico desert, and the people that made it possible.  These trailers will give you some idea of what you can expect.  

So is this a dry retelling of history?  An article in The Hollywood Reporter says this is not the case:

What you might think would work against Manhattan — the fact that the Manhattan Project was successful and relatively short-lived, so how can you sustain a series? — was explained away by the show’s creators, who, at the recent Television Critics Association summer press tour, noted that even though the story is based on facts, only Oppenheimer is a real figure. Everybody else is fictional, and Shaw’s ambition is to create a sense of life at Los Alamos, where secrets, lies and the hardships of being cut off from the rest of the world begin to take their toll.

The only part that scares me is the statement "everyone else is fictional."  If I see witches I will not be happy.  America has enough demons in its closet regarding this program without creating new ones.