Sol negro

This is your usual French melodrama. It has all the hallmarks of a bad script, bad acting, a lot of shouting and extreme soapiness. The audio is terrible and it is often not possible to even know what language is being spoken. It is amazing that with all modern sound technology available, French soaps like this still have not mastered how to achieve clear dialog as audio. Isabel Adjani tries to offer some semblance of acting but the carpet like wig that she has to wear is too much of a distraction to not laugh out loud. Overall, it's not worth the watch!

I don't understand how the French can make such great films and such terrible hammy TV drama. This is just awful. Its like eating a huge packet of crisps you might do it but you're not sure why and then you just feel cheap and awful afterwards. The plot has so many holes its ridiculous. The acting and casting is appalling. How did this get on netflix?

It's going to be hard writing a review that doesn't include spoilers. What can you say about a series that has its main characters, including the "heroine" making ridiculous decisions in every episode? Or a series that introduces a character just before the final episode who turns out to be pivotal to the plot? It's all a nonsense.

I watched it all, more fool me, which is why there are two stars.

As for Isabelle Adjani, I hope her fee was big enough to compensate for the reputational damage she will have suffered for appearing, botoxed out, in this farago of idiocy. Having to parade around in the ludicrous wig the script called for was the crowning glory of sublimely stupid scenarios. It got even better when she swapped the greying-hair wig for a brown-hair one. This was hilarious.

I can't recommend this unless you want to watch for a laugh.

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