The story is primarily aimed at older children or younger teenagers. But you can also enjoy it as an adult. Perhaps especially if you remember the 70s, you can get a nostalgia trip.
The story takes place in a small town with just over a thousand inhabitants, a new boy comes to town because of his father's job. He accidentally runs into two siblings, or was it a coincidence? The older sibling and the boy quickly take a liking to each other, her younger brother who dreams of becoming a journalist has just got a tape recorder and records everything he hears. It doesn't take long before they discover an old house, and the boy in particular feels a strange affinity with the house. By pure coincidence, or is it a coincidence? The girl gets a job in the house when the owner is going away on vacation. Now the three of them get access to the house when no one else is there. Or is it the case that no one else is there?
A story is unraveled about the house and especially the family that owned it several hundred years ago...
I thought the story was straightforward and exciting, it contains supernatural elements, but also teenage love and adventure. At first I wasn't that impressed, I thought the storytelling was a bit too simplistic. But it really grew on me and some scenes were exciting even when you were an adult watching. This may therefore be a warning for younger children, as it gets a little creepy in places for younger children.
The child actors do a good job and mostly feel natural, even if the dialogue in some places feels a bit stiff, even this feels like it flows better and better the longer the series goes on. The adult acting is very good, even if they are only in supporting roles.
What Swedish authors/screenwriters do well is write stories from the perspective of children/young people and they really succeed here.
It's also really liberating not to listen to a bunch of screaming American teenagers, as it would have been if this was a Hollywood production.
I hesitated about what rating to give it. As an adult 6-7, but then I thought if I was 12-13 years old and saw it. Well then I would have loved it so 9.
