The episode keeps such a wonderful momentum throughout its entire runtime that I found it incredibly difficult to turn away from the screen even for a second. While each character has plenty of things to figure out with and for themselves, Oscar and Jessica are at their best when they're together. There is so much to unravel here, so much these two sweep under the rug and rip out of themselves that by the end you are just waiting for the volcano to erupt. And let's face it, we all know it's coming...
6 Reviews
Uncomfortable
lareval5 December 2021
Perfect acting and perfect dialogue make for a truly stunning and really uncomfortable viewing in this movie-like pilot. Just a few times a couple of lines make for a true impact and here they really do. Amazing first outing.
Fantastic writing and acting
samzimm13 September 2021
Bla bla bla!
dthornton515 October 2021
I really wanted to like this...
KanKan994 October 2021
Very human, not symphatethic characters, good acting
beargod-487068 October 2021
Warning: Spoilers
It depends on you wanting to see a marriage fall apart because stupidity and weak people or finding something more cheerful? If you are into depression, sadness and people making harmful decisions destroying their lifes, you will love this.
Selfish, career woman has a (pre)midlife crisis while finding out she wants to have a better life, better sex and experience passion again. The tone is perfectly set as she decides to have an abortion in fear to get stuck in the relationship while his husband wants to have the kid. She decides to let the marriage, the husband and the daughter fall in order to do this. In her mind it is all about her (it's my party the party I want to). The guy is shocked, he does not want to lose her even after it is clear he has been swapped for a younger, passionate male. Then after a while she seperates from the young bull and wants to get back as nothing has happened. This time the guy collects his missing balls and prepares the divorce papers which she signs after a quarrel... I secretly hope that karma will come back to the woman, but the original version suggests something else.
None of the characthers are likeable. The woman is described enough above, the guy is insignificant, shows much empathy to a partner that does not deserve that. You constantly have the feeling that if you were in their place you would have ended the relationship much earlier. Although being a very sad story, the actors are excellent, they perfectly deliver this picture of flaved people.
Why I don't like it? I have seen this in real life at least three times with friends (career women leaving their loving husbands because they do not experience passionate love), while also the other way round (husbands changing their "boring" wifes and get a younger woman). So it is too real, and too traumatic.
Selfish, career woman has a (pre)midlife crisis while finding out she wants to have a better life, better sex and experience passion again. The tone is perfectly set as she decides to have an abortion in fear to get stuck in the relationship while his husband wants to have the kid. She decides to let the marriage, the husband and the daughter fall in order to do this. In her mind it is all about her (it's my party the party I want to). The guy is shocked, he does not want to lose her even after it is clear he has been swapped for a younger, passionate male. Then after a while she seperates from the young bull and wants to get back as nothing has happened. This time the guy collects his missing balls and prepares the divorce papers which she signs after a quarrel... I secretly hope that karma will come back to the woman, but the original version suggests something else.
None of the characthers are likeable. The woman is described enough above, the guy is insignificant, shows much empathy to a partner that does not deserve that. You constantly have the feeling that if you were in their place you would have ended the relationship much earlier. Although being a very sad story, the actors are excellent, they perfectly deliver this picture of flaved people.
Why I don't like it? I have seen this in real life at least three times with friends (career women leaving their loving husbands because they do not experience passionate love), while also the other way round (husbands changing their "boring" wifes and get a younger woman). So it is too real, and too traumatic.
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