I really wasn't sure what to expect, especially as my Wife read the book and had her own reservations about an adaptation, but they did a fantastic job telling this story. This is a very different type of Holocaust story, and I don't just mean the story itself, but the way it was told, it was just very different than previous tellings of Holocaust stories, and I would recommend this, but don't binge it, let the episodes sync in.
One of the things I appreciate most with the way this was done, was they showed something you never see in other movies, they showed how people went YEARS waiting to learn about their families, Addy had 8 years of no contact while in Brazil, 8 YEARS. My paternal grandparents were survivors from Lodz, Poland (the place where the Mom gets upset about the family who got their house and possessions), and just 12 or so years ago, we learned of another cousin who had survived and went to Australia. He was my Grandfather's 1st cousin, and no one knew he survived, and he never knew anyone else did, and I know this is happening all over the world now, but I really appreciated them making this a point, as my Grandmother spoke OFTEN about the years before she knew the fates of so many people, and you never see that represented in media.
After 2 eps:
There is no way I'm waiting a week for an ep that lasts barely 30 min. This is the stupidest sh** entertainment does with fantasy/sci-fi. What can you get during 30 min? Definitely not a proper story.
I'm only watching this bc I like couple actors (I just watched them in sth else and I wanted to see more of them, I barely know them tho).
Amandla I saw only in The darkest Minds, which I loved and her role got me into reading the books, I have some of her movies on watchlist still. I could believe her two roles here BUT... some of her mannerisms got me so out of the story and for 2 eps I couldnt get past it. Sometimes the way she walks is like not one foot after the other but like she had a stick between the knees xD And sometimes when she stands, her body above the waits is so forced to be forward before the legs it looks so weird. Idk if it's just something she thought would work for the charcters or what happened...
I'm not gonna say anything about Charlie... well, I hope it's actually Yord that is so awkward and supposed-to-be-but-not-really-funny.
And I really like Master Sol, cool to see Lee Jung-Jae in a different role. I was invested in ex teacher-ex student relationship which is what will keep my interest in waiting for the season to finish so I could watch it whole.
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