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The principal actor was not up to the task (as the young girlfriend was not), which is a pity given the strengths of the rest of the cast. It was painful to watch him.

This is good hard scifi. I remember watching it after grade school one winter, perched against an airheat vent. I ate an entire bag of Oreos and my mom was not happy when I was uninterested in dinner.

Fun, kind of comedy hard scifi. Too many action sequences that don't add to the plot.

This show is too ambitious and at the same time copies other classic scifi. The acting is barely so-so, the concepts banal and inconsistent, and I could never escape the feeling that someone was just making it up.

From the first scene, we felt that something was off. We found it artificial and stilted, full of ridiculous stereotypes with a horrible script, indifferent acting, and boring plot. It is the worst mini-series I've seen since the pandemic started and we've watched an awful lot of them.

I have now watched it 3 times all the way through. Though I hesitate to say I completely get it, it is among the best scifi series that I have ever seen. Deep, dark, complex, even believable in the sense of suspending your disbelief.

I just watched the entirety of the series on youtube. It is truly excellent: strong characters, suspenseful scenarios, even the Germans are differentiated as individuals with their own motives.

A fascinating look at pre-feminist struggle. Hilda is ambitious and unhappy, struggling to feel fulfilled to her expectations. She returns home after her latest divorce, only to step into an old passion as well as a guy who has always wanted her. Unfortunately, her prospective mother in law is a poisonous creature, who does her best - her ultimate - to make the possibility to fail. Like Emma Bovary, you could call her a tramp, a narcissist, an unfulfilled talent, a loser, even someone before her time, perhaps ready to grow. Hilda makes some bad choices and it is impossible to read the ending - is it real? Ironic? Quixotic before another failure? It is a good film.

The film differs so significantly from the book that it betrays the complexity of the full story. It is a good film in itself, but perhaps shouldn't refer to the Cather original.