Good actors and a good first 2/3
This series has a fulminate start, there are a lot of really interesting and different characters, several motivations and conflicts, tremendously humor, fast peace and mostly very good and attractive actors in all ranges of age.
Even more: writing and filming are very carefully done, we get plenty of beautiful details like breaking waves reflected in the window of a beach restaurant, like appropriate music coming from the radio in the car while the characters are discussing, etc. This is absolutely a lot higher than the standard for a 50 episodes series.
As a 200m courses trained athlete cannot keep the same pace for a marathon, the story and the motivations and the conflicts (and the lovely details) dilute till almost nothing after the first two thirds. Some parts are blandly written and accordingly played by hardly motivated actors; some parts are just nonsense fillings - I had the feeling that the writer and the director went for holiday and some poor AI system took their place. Definitively, the result had been much better if it had only 30 and not 50 episodes. Towards the end, things are hurried and rashly put into their good nice place.
Altogether: a great occasion to act for some beautiful and talented actors at all ages, enjoyable for a long time, yet not one of the top 3 family dramas. I'll miss some of the actors and hope to see them soon again.
Even more: writing and filming are very carefully done, we get plenty of beautiful details like breaking waves reflected in the window of a beach restaurant, like appropriate music coming from the radio in the car while the characters are discussing, etc. This is absolutely a lot higher than the standard for a 50 episodes series.
As a 200m courses trained athlete cannot keep the same pace for a marathon, the story and the motivations and the conflicts (and the lovely details) dilute till almost nothing after the first two thirds. Some parts are blandly written and accordingly played by hardly motivated actors; some parts are just nonsense fillings - I had the feeling that the writer and the director went for holiday and some poor AI system took their place. Definitively, the result had been much better if it had only 30 and not 50 episodes. Towards the end, things are hurried and rashly put into their good nice place.
Altogether: a great occasion to act for some beautiful and talented actors at all ages, enjoyable for a long time, yet not one of the top 3 family dramas. I'll miss some of the actors and hope to see them soon again.
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