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Dan, Hanaui Sarang (2019)
unbelievable !
I was seriously misled by the number of very high ratings of this drama. So far as I was concerned it was a mishmash of illogical ideas with everything laid on with a trowel ; my wife and I did persist to the end largely because we wanted to post a review and it would have been unfair to have done so after not seeing the whole thing. But it did require some determination to last all sixteen episodes ! Perhaps the link with ´the deity´ inspired all the enthusiasm but the input from the supernatural side of life was just as bad as the human plot. I find many K-dramas to be brilliant but this was a disappointment.
Misaeng (2014)
very misleading reviews
I watched this series because the reviews were the best that I have ever seen on imdb but was very disappointed. The whole purpose of the series seemed to be to show that Korean corporate life was a jungle inhabited by a large number of deeply unpleasant people. It may be that corporate life in every country is indeed as nasty as this show suggests and all the glowing reviews were derived from the satisfaction viewers felt on seeing a realistic portrayal. But that is what documentaries are for and I prefer most of my watching to be entertainment. This series had the sketchiest plot imaginable.
Si accettano miracoli (2015)
very entertaining !
This is somewhere between a farce and a comedy with some very witty lines. There are well-drawn and acted characters and beautiful Calabrian scenery and a great group of children : so I think kids would enjoy it. The take on Catholicism is fair for a small village in southern Italy with a very decent priest doing his best with siblings who complicate life for him and parishioners who have their own ideas about the best way of dealing with the events which keep coming at a good pace throughout the film. The love interest is understated (which helps to make this suitable for children !). My wife and I enjoyed it very much.
Milosc do kwadratu (2021)
very enjoyable
Reviews which range from 1 to 10 demonstrate some rather picky reviewers. The leads are attractive, the plot is ingenious, the subsidiary characters all make their contribution and it sounds as if the original dialogue is pretty good but spoiled by average subtitling. The doom-mongers all write like professional critics ; for normal people who enjoy romcoms this is a decent evening's entertainment