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Call the Midwife (2012)
Makes you feel warm and fuzzy
I have never seen a series where I grew to love every single character. I have cried my heart out on so many episodes, and though it usually all ends well, the series keeps me gasping on so many occations.
I love the focus on womens struggles and minorities. To show the difficulties social and religious regiuarities put on people but in a miraculous way to still manage to keep an optimistic outlook makes this a unique piece of television.
I am not and never have been a family person, and you don't need to be one to watch this series. If you are a compassionate human, it will sweep you off your feet, blow you away and lift you right back up.
Nowhere (2023)
Too much drama
The story sounded intriguing enough - a young family escaping from a totalitarian regime gone wrong with the pregnant woman ending up trapped in a shipping container. This setup would have already given more than enough basis for a very entertaining movie but no - it was also necessary to throw in an overly dramatic and completely unrealistic birthing scene, followed by some unnecessary gore and even more drama. I get that the biblical references were probably supposed to be deep and thoughtful, but adding a CGI whale just makes the whole thing even more absurd.
While the acting was passable, the main charakters passiveness in the first half of the movie was infuriating - with all the necessary tools available it still takes her a good two thirds of the movie to find the solution that was right in front of her the whole time.
Ever since Titanic, movie makers should also know that their audience is also aware of the effects of staying on water for too long. While people at Burning Men were already complaing about Trenchfoot after two days, the otherwise pretty whiny main character had no issues staying in salt water for quite significant amounts of time let alone the issue of water temperature and hypothermia.
Overall the movie felt like a Tupperware commercial with too much artificial drama instead of just making use of what the setting provides naturally.
Hoarders (2009)
OK start but declining continuously
OCDs and especially hoarding fascinate me. As this is a US reality TV series, I didn't have high hopes to begin with. However, the concept of involving a psychologist into the process and providing after care funds for the participants gave me a positive surprise.
In the first few seasons, the series really focuses on the mental part of the hoarding. You can see how hard it is for people to let go and they even fail some times. There isn't always success. I really did like that part.
However, in the following seasons it gets worse and worse. The show is trying to have more sensational cases, more extreme filth or huge family fights. The last season is not a show about hoarding anymore, but a very weird mash up of not well done Horror, Home Remodel, Makeover, Family Crisis. While I found it not helpful to show the family the "stat the house is in" in season 5, in my opinion it is completely useless to spend a night in the home and explain to a shaky hand cam how scary and disgusting it is.
The first few seasons are a nice watch, but I would recommend to stop after Season 4. Nothing good coming after that.