Reviews

Otherwise, I actually enjoyed this movie, but mainly for nostalgic reasons. My own father was an American radio operator in Germany during WWII. After the end of the war, he ended up in Paris, where he fell very ill with the flu. Not speaking French, he ended up riding the Metro until a French nurse found him, took him home and nursed him back to health. It was unspoken, but I always assumed it was probably his first sexual experience, especially since his favorite song was Claire d'Lune, the Debussy piano piece played over and over in the background of this series.

As some other viewers have mentioned, I too hated how over-the-top evil most of the Germans were made out to be, and I always prefer to hear subtitles, but at least it wasn't dubbed, so I will let that slide. I was kinda shocked at how many people professed to want the actual languages, seeing as how the book was also probably in English in the first place.

In summation, this hit all of the feels for me in terms of reminiscing on my dad's old stories, but missed the mark as far as a realistic portrayals of some of the characters, who were cartoon villains.

I'm giving it 5 stars for the timeliness of the topic, and taking away 5 stars for missing the mark in so many ways.

Missed the mark: 1. Carbon in the atmosphere, rising seas, and climate change are symptoms, not goals. The problems stem from physics and will differ depending upon the fuel used, but are the results of heat generated by humans making stuff we don't need, then packaging it, delivering it, and finally throwing it away when it breaks.

2. They are also symptoms of global takeover by the the AI being created by corporations and the laws that allow, nay FORCE, them to only seek profits (read: exploitation of the labor of humans) by any means necessary. One rule of all companies is growth. The "science" of economics ignores the input (resources) and the ouputs (heat) other than the products that are sold. At the same time "piercing the corporate veil" to hold them accountable for their actions is rare, and instead of protecting the poor, we sacrifice them and bail them out of their risks so that they don't lose these profits.

3. The episode with gigantic aircraft running on batteries was hilarious. There would be no room for actual cargo in such a craft - the whole thing would require so many batteries just to fly the battery weight alone, not to mention a voluminous payload. The resources needed to replace fossil fuels with "sustainable" batteries, say lithium, would be completely depleted after the first round of replacement and will need to be replaced again - by what?

We humans don't want to give up our lifestyle and return to a sort of living that is actually sustaianable, yet this entire series shows people focusing on MORE technologies in addition to the climate-ameliorating stuff. Technology is the cause of our problems, not the solution.

I have come to this conclusion at the end of a long life in the high-tech sector. I wrote my first computer program in 1967 when I was in high school, and I am sad to say I have only recently realized that the actual fact is - our finite planet cannot possibly sustain infinite growth without ending up in collapse, a fact that is not highlighted anywhere in this series, nor at Apple Corp, nor in our government, nor pretty much anywhere on this dying planet, but there are studies and writings to seek out, and I hope this series will lead to that, for the sake of our descendants.

As we all knew, this mission should never have existed. But, if Ms. Lioness is so self-righteous about what she is doing and how right it is, why is she crying? Nothing made sense here.

I wish we could have a real show about real issues, instead of this star-studded mess of BS culminating in a huge reversal. Let's get real, OK?

I gave it a 6/10 overall because it was entertaining to me, but it has left a bad taste in my mouth due to it's failure to commit to a point of view. Either the US should or should not be executing people. I vote for not, but this show doesn't seem to have an overall point of view, so I took off 1 point for that.

There are a lot of people who said we didn't get to see whodunit, but I disagree with them. The defense lawyer sees that both the necklace that was missing evidence from the girlfriend's death and the black gloves that were missing evidence from the child's death were both in the book that she asked for. Clearly she kept them as souvenirs and wanted him to know she did it as those items came up during the episodes and she kept silent. She definitely lied.

Everyone is correct, however. If this is the court system in Belgium, it is terrible as depicted. I hope it is not the case that 2 different murders, separated by space and time, would end up in the same trial. We also see similar deliberate and not deliberate miscarriages of justice in the US, but this seemed to be considered as normal here, and of no concern to the filmmakers.

Once again, women shoved under the bus and men told to grow up instead of getting their just desserts. Expectations managed in order to make sure nothing changes in the patriarchal hierarchy. Sorry for the political take, but I'm guessing I'm the only one who is going to point this out. UGH!!

I enjoyed most of it, but in the end corruption is given a pass in favor of those already in charge and maintaining power - for what "Good" now? I can't tell, really. As long as the losers stay losing, it's all OK in the end, I guess.

It was "good" to kill your bio-dad, but not "good" to kill someone else just as selfish and bad. I guess since one is illegally bad and the other pretends to be good and is not known to be illegal, it's not OK to kill him. So many mixed messages pretending to be real here, it's a crying shame, but pretty realistic as well.