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And I like dark and slow. Very good actors. Lots of yanking back and forth in timeline, which mostly made sense but you can forget who is who. Alma's was a story I wish we'd heard more about. I'd give it 7.5, and hope others will try it. A 'Netflix original' so watch it there.

Since it's a German series, my expectations were very low. Being presented all the BS on the public channels. So I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised after having watched that mini-series. Watching only US/UK/AUS-shows for the last 10+ years this one could keep up with some of them.

The scenery is beautiful. I was born and raised in the northern part of Germany so the coast was always close to me. Maybe that fact has biased my opinion. Nontheless, Christiane Paul and Corinna Harfouch do their jobs very well when it comes to acting.

The plot, however, lacks here and there some refinement. Throwing slang and being "super loose" in a family conversation doesn't make up for a weak content.

Is it believable, somehow yes, and somehow no.

It's overall a good series where you find yourself saying "na ja" (engl.: "Oh, well..." with a condescending undertone) quite a lot, so I have to back up that one previous review.

If you have time for 3x 30-40min and do not want to think a lot and being well entertained, just give it a shot. You won't have the feeling that you wasted your time.

I would say Holiday Secrets is a typical Netflix family drama based on flashbacks which bring you back in time and help to look into cupboard in search for family skeletons. I would say too many flashbacks as they made it too difficult to follow the story and distinguish family women from each other, at least until the middle of the episode 2. Which was half of the series in total.

Anyway, the mini series was rather intriguing, well written and well directed. Nice to see the windy Baltic Sea landscape and dune views which made some fresh difference from usual Mediterranean coastline in Netflix shows.

It's slow and beautiful. Sometimes a bit confusing. But the writing, the emotions and twists are perfectly placed. The ratings are getting really harsh lately. It's like there is no way to make people happy anymore.

The writers did a terrible job on this one. About 10 different stories going12 different directions and totally unbelievable. The only redeeming quality was the seaside and ocean. Otherwise it wasn't worth writing home about.

This series touched my heart. The cinematography was marvelous and I was never confused about what was going on, even with the time jumps. Highly recommend this gem!

This is a very well directed mini series technically speaking. The scenes are very smooth, the location is nice, the fashbacks etc - everything is very well managed. However, I cant be saying the same thing for the script. It is just a loosy version of American TV movies. Actually, instead of watching this one, go and watch Terms of Endearment if you are into mother daughter relationships. It has great international stars at least and great acting that empowers you. If you lived in Germany and you are exposed to the German language and the German culture, you will also feel like me. This mini - series for me reflects the German attitude towards popular arts. It tries, it achieves with a degree of confidence but it does not deliver. You turn your eyes off saying "na ja". Somehow on the creative spectrum Germans are very origional think of Klaus Kinski, Wim Wenders etc. But when they will do something that is popular, they beat the creativity for the sake of technicality. My verdict - this series has no soul, no character. There is a script, directing and acting. All very technical, all risk averse. Leading everything to be quite average.

[Edit: watched until the end. Tried to sum up.] In ordner to make this review without spoilers, this is the only thing i can say. I watched all three episodes and i am not amused. This series thinks, every single human in its audience is so dumb, that it comes up with a total sensless plot. In fact i beleave the plot was written by 14 year old teenagers who naively are building up a crime thriller psycho plot without the key components of these genres.

The series is over explanatory. It does not leave room for interpretation or time and space for thinking about it. 50% of the dialouge consist of names shouted at each other for rembering the dumb audience who is who. Besides that the characters are constantly repeating themselves like a cliche bomb. Its like a story in the head of the already mentioned teenagers - only with more strong language to give it a pseudo contemporary and adult flavor.

Why? The title and the thumbnails, even the short description were promising. The series can not catch up what the marketing promised. It feels like an afternoon tv show for senior audience in german television.

Nice photography and color pallete nice direction very cold and tragic humor.

No good ideas, normal to good performances.

Bit boring too. I cant see 2nd episode.