Curtis Kelly

It has been a fun watch so far, especially season one, but season two just seemed to get stereotypical and fishing for attention. It felt like it was written by men, who are imposing their own ethnicity and sexual lack of satisfaction on characters they do not fit. I mean do women glow over concepts and language like "safe dick," or is that and all the potty mouthing just a shill. Still, the acting is good and story entertaining.

An awesome movie that leaves residue. We rarely see the war mentality and horrors the Berliners faced at end of the war, a perspective we should not ignore. But to put that bigger story inside this much smaller charming one makes it so beautiful and moving. It's the best movie I have seen in a long long time.

There are a lot of reviews that pan the series, but the only criticism I agree with is the slowness. I am 100% sure the people there talked faster, walked faster and did not have those long pauses for dramatic effect. That makes it seem unrealistic. But I think some of the other criticisms, such as comparing it to the Cherynoble series are way off. It is a history for those of us who were in Japan at that time, including me, not a typical drama, and it fills in all the gaps about what happened. That is so good. I also suspect a lot of the critics watched it in English audio, not Japanese, which makes it seem like a Mickey Mouse cartoon. If you know Japanese, the interactions are much richer in that language, but even if you don't, use the subtitles. The language and demeanor match up better and communicate more. In Japan, it is the empty spaces that count, the unsaid.