Episode #1.1

This show is all over the place so far. Set design is fantastic and some of the acting is great. However, being adapted from a well loved book, which I haven't read, the dialogue is at some points so ridiculously forced that I can't really get immersed into the show. I get that introducing the characters in the first episode is important, but at some points it's almost literally "I'm (fill in the blank) and this is what I do." One of the key examples is the bakery scene. Marie walks in and sees her uncle for about 15 seconds where he proceeds to explain the whole point of what she's doing instead of letting the story naturally play out. Everything seems so forced and does far too much hand holding in assuming the audience won't be able to pick up on characters without flat out telling them what's going on. Almost every scene in the first half of the episode is some variation of the bakery scene in terms of character introductions. I think I may be being too harsh because other aspects of the show are great and I'll continue watching. But to me these aspects are pretty hard to ignore. However, l love the fact that they actually used visually impaired actors who did their job quite well. 6.5/10.

Episode 1 is beyond disappointing :(

I was so looking forward to this and it's just a letdown.

Generally cheesy acting that feels like a high school drama production. Sets look cheap, and there's no real sense of the time period, and no real sense of the trauma of war.

So far, poor adherence to the book. Uncle Etienne looked/behaved nothing like the source material. Werner has yellow hair. The sequence of Reinhold finding Marie had none of the book's tension or build-up, and was frankly anti-climactic. Did the show's creators even read the book?

Everyone bizarrely speaks in a British accent, although some actors at times randomly adopt a sort of German-sounding twang. Would it have been so hard to hire actual French and German actors? I kept thinking that unless I'd read the book, it would be so clunky to follow what was going on and who these people are.

The only highlight were the scenes featuring child Marie. She was a delight to watch.

I can't continue with this series as I don't want to ruin such a beautiful and treasured book.

For those of you who have spent many years watching the lackluster acting that emanated from Hollywood "stars" well, "All The Light You Cannot See" is a must see.

Every single character can and does SEEM REAL, SEEM AUTHENTIC, make it seem like you are there with them.

If you are tried of lousy Hollywood acting while everyone onscreen sells cigarettes in every scene by constantly smoking, THIS Netflix blockbuster is for you.

I cannot say enough about Netflix process of finding actors and actresses compared to Hollywood (which, apparently, acting was never a qualification).

Aria Mia Loberti, a never acted before find, sifted from thousands of auditions by the Netflix director, is one of the truly gifted actors of my lifetime. Every minute of her performance seems as real as any person sitting next to you would feel.

Louis Hofmann, also, in his role as reluctant but brilliant Nazi, is PERFECT. REAL action again! Not Hollywood blather and smoke.

Contrasting the innate "good" of Loberti and Hofmann we have Lars Eidinger, the truly evil incarnate. Lars scares me every time he is on screen and represents the monstrous reality of the German Nazi to the world in true reality.

A true blockbuster. Thanks to everyone at netflix.

This series is adapted from the brilliant book of the same name by Anthony Doerr.

The casting is terrible and the acting/dialogue is equally as bad. Some of the dialogue is so obviously bad it's almost laughable. It looks like Netflix have done their usual thing of under developing an idea, throwing huge amounts of money at it and hoping it works. Unfortunately, yet again, it hasn't.

On the plus side, the sets are beautiful. 10* for the set designers I suppose.

Please, do yourself a favour and don't watch this, at least until you have read the book, which is an absolutely outstanding read..

I'm late to finally watching this series and as of this first episode, it doesn't seem so horrible to me. The acting is perfectly good, the characters are engaging, the premise is interesting, the plot zips right along without dead spots, and the special effects are convincing. Just pick anything at random from Netflix and you'll see much worse.

The plotline with the eeeevil Nazi maniacally and sadistically searching for a legendary gem with supposedly magic powers is maybe a bit Indiana Jones-ish, but I assume that's taken from the well-regarded novel on which this series is based, so that can't be the problem.

The first episode did its job, getting me interested in learning more about the two main characters, particularly Werner, and continuing with the series.