(I'm not marking as spoiler since this review is mostly for what DIDN'T happen in the series)
The actors were all great choices, but it felt like the story was lacking and not nearly as dramatic and complex as it was in real life.
The main things I was missing were:
- Eti's deep relationship and interactions with the customers she stole from, some of their backstories and seeing their faces and why they trusted her so much. The empathy for them is a big part of the real story that just felt completely minor and left out here.
- Eti's actual fear for her brother's life felt very lacking, in this show she seemed more cold than actually scared, it barely felt at any point like she was really terrified for his life, which again her fear for him is such a huge part of the real story.
- The reactions from people when they found out was meant to be the highlight of the story, but instead we barely saw any of them at all, even the bank manager seemed kinda apathetic. There were no reactions at all from the customers who lost their money, no showing what it meant to them, the little stories of the old people who lost everything, the young guy who just got out of the military service and all of the money he got from it was lost in this bank, the reactions from Eti's co-workers, etc. Literally none of those were included, so you spend the whole series waiting for it but it was just deemed not important by the creators.
- The huge protests by customers in front of the bank after it all blew up were also not included.
- The very famous moment of Eti's huge scream in the trial also felt not nearly as dramatic as the real one, which is so weird considering there is a real video of it so it should have been super easy to mimic in the series. It's THE one moment that anyone who remembers the story have saved in their mind, so it was supposed to be a highlight in the end of the story, but instead if felt very numb.
In addition, it felt like too much time was dedicated to things that felt made up, like ice skating stories or fake mafia people, which I wouldn't mind much if it wasn't for the fact that they didn't find time to include so many of the important parts of the story, but still wasted time on these likely-imaginary things.
Overall, it is nice to watch if you do already know the real story, but probably not something to rely on as a source of information if you are not familiar with the real story.
