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I loved the sweep of the story, the portrayal of the characters across the decades and generations, and of course, the family connectedness, the true and abiding love story at the center of it all. Would be nice to see it on a big screen, for the beauty of the island scenes by the sea and in the flowering field. The only reason that I gave it 4 stars, and not 5, is that at a point the continual whining complaining crying of the young women actresses (not their fault, it was clearly what they were directed to do) became more than exhausting, it became so irritatingly annoying, in the way that a loud, overbearing laugh track is annoying, that I considered stopping watching the series midway through it. I wonder if this is a cultural thing, that this is the only form of negative expression that is culturally accepted in Korea for young women, or if it's a deficiency of the directing.

Hilarious. I bet it is even better for Korean Americans. Seems as if there are a lot of inside cultural jokes.

Lovely film about an autistic adult man finding love, and how the people around him respond.

It's SLOW, very, very slow. Simply not believable that wealthy, educated parents in this day and age would not have sought real psychiatric care (not just a "therapist") for a teen suffering major depression with self harm. Yes, the actors and actresses are very attractive, and their facial expressions as they all suffer, and suffer, and suffer are so filled with pathos, as the camera lingers, and lingers, and lingers, to make sure that you get it as they all suffer, mostly in silence, but I was screaming internally the entire time, "You need to take him to a psychiatrist! You need to hospitalize him!" The only reason that I watched this until the end was that I was watching it on a transatlantic flight, killing time. I would not bother with it.

Loved her in this. Actually applauded at the twist ending of the pilot.

Loved it! It feels like a remake of An Unmarried Woman, but in upper class Cairo. 40 yr old housewife Ola's husband has a mid-life crisis and divorces her, leaving her to struggle to remake her life. None of the reality of Cairo is shown - all one sees is groomed greenery, silent, uncrowded streets, nothing like the reality of life in Cairo, even in a wealthy suburb. They must have filmed every street scene at 5 AM on a summer Friday! But still, it was a pleasant fantasy, although the show doesn't shy away from the reality that in Egypt the man can divorce his wife and take everything, including the children. Ola's existence is at the will and whim of her mostly reasonable ex-husband (lucky her; not so lucky for the vast majority of women in Egypt). I'm looking forward to the 2nd season.

It's a fun watch. The supporting characters are good. Of course,it's totally unrealistic. The high achieving nerd kids who are trying for Ivy League schools would never have time for such social lives. The reality is that the kids like that are studying and cramming in extracurricular achievements so much of their days and nights that they don't have time to sleep, let alone socialize. I have a feeling that Indian immigrant parents wouldn't permit such shenanigans, either. But enjoy the fantasy.

I am SO tired of teen dramas which cast adults as high school students. Grown men in their 20's do not look like 10th graders, just because they're sitting next to a row of lockers. And short women in their 20's don't look like 15 year olds. The tenth graders in upscale Boston suburban towns who are going anywhere in life (as most of them are), are not all drinking, drugging, and having indiscriminate sex. They actually study and do schoolwork - something you never see happening even for a millisecond on this show. All that being said, this Boston suburbs remake of 90210 is a pleasant enough way to waste a few hours. I would not let my preteens watch it, lest they believe that this puff fantasy piece has anything to do with real-life high school.

Touching Indian take on the end of life road trip to visit childhood home theme. Not being Indian, I cannot say whether it is authentic or not. I just know it was sensitive and enjoyable.

Plodding soap opera set to a post WWII Australian "Downton Abbey" background. It's a Fox production, so lots of heavy-handed, "pro-life" references, blaming the evil abortionist, while everyone falls into bed with everyone else, both straight and gay. The women's outfits and the fancy 1950s cars are fun to watch.