Best movie of this year hands down!

Too much of everything

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

I would affirm the other positive reviews here and reiterate #1 how enjoyable the show is and #2 how unlike it is to your typical American fare Television. If you gravitate to foreign films the you should probably give this a go. Season #1, episode #7 " The Princess " is allegory for Rita's own troubled youth and life which has'nt been dealt with directly in the series up to that point. I myself didn't get it until my partner clued me in. A very subtle story line and literary device, like a good movie, which you're not likely to find very many places on TV. I recommend it and feel grateful Netflix puts these "foreign" TV shows on its network.

Banal, boring and clichéd in its attempt to pull all the threads of Rita's history together. Tedious flashbacks and a feeble script. And hell, what happened to the lighting and makeup. How dig you manage to make the glorious Rita old, ugly and fat.

Half way through season 2 on netflix . Enjoying the series. Its amusing , well-written (even the subtitles are good) and well-acted. I have noticed, however, that it's always a lovely summer's day , and since Rita seems to never change her jeans , perhaps it was all shot in just one week?

Probably the thing I like most about this series, and the thing which attracted me to it in the first place, is the contrast it provides between it and anything that might appear on American TV. This show could NEVER appear on American TV, unless on one of the subscription channels like HBO, because it has such a casual and accepting attitude towards sex and sexuality and towards "profanity." These things don't bother me in the least, but I'm hardly the norm in America. If this series is any indication, then clearly the Danes, like other Europeans, are much more grown up in their attitudes towards sex and language. Not that that should surprise anyone.That being said, I'm right on the cusp of giving up on this series. (I've watched 6 episodes.) This is another of those productions which is plot-driven to the detriment of character development. What I mean by that is that the writers, in order to move things along, cause the characters to be simply carried along by the necessities of the plot without regard to whether their characters ever would (or could), in a million years, actually act like that. Zebras, it is rightly said, cannot change their stripes, but in this series people change their personalities quicker than you can change your pants.Bottom line, I think, is just that the series is poorly written, and as a result the characters swim around in a plot-driven sea tide which carries them around willy-nilly, without any volition or logic on their part.On the plus side, Mille Dinesen has a beautiful butt, and the camera unabashedly lingers on it. I wish that were enough to keep me watching, but I'm afraid it's not.