Delicate and uncompromising. Must watch
Double cringe - it does works pretty well when cringe works.
Kudos to the dedication to make it work!
It is weird.
On one side, it is objectivity awful: 2 actors horrendously playing archetypal roles in a spy-comedy genre, which in that particular instance fails at both comedy and spycraft representation (maybe "imo" for that last one, but they really do ridiculous stuff - as long as it serves the badly written development between the spouses. Damn how bad do they act.) Think bottom of the barrel for acting, writing, and the procedural format. And that damn! line! beginning each episode manages to be illogical, horribly cringe and with no context whatsoever.
On the other hand, still watching.
Kinda feels like a telenovella for how they talk and how simplistic, archetypal characters are written and how little development there is, so why am I still watching?
Urf. At a loss for words.
On one hand, it is a good show, and it's a good adaptation of the book on the (day to day) cultural aspect.
However, as a reader of the book, what I'm most disappointed with this show is that it exchanges the actual human trafficking (kidnapping (foreign) girls, to supply the high demand in Japan for, basically, sex slaves) for... Drugs. How American. How... Well, not Japanese, betraying the cultural fidelity is was supposed to depict.
In my opinion, that show transforms a very good (actual) story (in the book) into yet another random show.
Meh.
("disclaimer" : it's been a long time since I've read the book. So even though I didn't find (yet) the elements leading to the main plot, maybe it's coming, if they have a 10 seasons something in the works. Still not impress yet anyway.)
Amazing show, exuding love and its torments at every turn. The acting, resting for a good part on the amazing performance of Ariane Labed, is outstanding: I was there, in there lives, and wished I was with them some more for a second season of happiness and love and life.
It's a new kind of bad!
Think killjoys, remove the flare, the humor, and any form of scenario, then add at least one combat still-scene per episode, and very, very bad tentative of jokes. Vagrant Queen!
