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So this is a 100% Dutch series peeking inside 100% Dutch culture. A group of friends called 'Shared home friends' (huisgenoten) apparently knowing each other from living together in a (student) hous now all or most living apart but still meeting and interacting very intensely. Situated in Amsterdam so for thos thousands and thousands of expacts living there it might be a good start to learn Dutch because that is the culture you also live in? The series will be hard to translate since 50% of the scenes contain whatsapp messages (in Dutch) which will be difficult to translate - even being a relatively good representation of how many of us live these days. The acting, languages, situations are all spot-on and there is hardly any irritating or unlikely scene. So that's pretty good. Problems that occur, hjow the're solved or not, situations,all very recognizable - I guess all over the western world. So far so good. Downside for me: 4 series of each 24 episodes. I watched the first 24. Pretty much hooked. #24 also pretty much 'all is well that ends well' even when this was an 8 hour event. Then I peeked into the previews of the next 3x24 episodes and continuously new problems and people are brought forward and I thought: no more of this. Pretty tiring actually even when pretty good. They should have stopped after series 1 but I'm sure others disagree strongly.

You may not like the very obvious twisting of the original book nor like the "woke" characters but please open your mind for the fantastic scenery and scenes , the very authentic atmosphere created on the locations the group visited. And the superior match of David Tennant and his role in this comedy.

Because yes that is what it is, a great complex humouristic setting with some very serious ingredients along the line. I fully enjoyed the funny parts while still being taken by some of the serious and thriller type scenes.

And on 'woke': it's exactly the fact that Passepartout is played by a black character without this - at any moment - being spoiled with black or white discussion. I found that so liberating.

The series is really very pleasant to look at - and yes you need to skip any logic thinking which is completely in Jules Verne's style.

Just enjoy beautiful pictures, funny and also serious moments which feel could have actually happened nevertheless.

Is because all remaining viewers did not care about the ridiculousness and errors in science and space technology.. nor were they bothered by the terrible dialogues and childish behaviour of the crew. At least after the mid section bullying the commander I decided to leave this series for good.