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Käenpesä is a drama bout young people sharing a big apartment somewhere in Helsinki. We find twenty-something couple Jussi and Kaisa, baby-faced art director Julia, teacher and sometimes a poet Pirjo, siblings Pete and Luukas and Jussi's psychiatrist friend Traian still struggling with their pasts and waiting for life to give them a sign to start. Good sense of humor, great characterization and interesting subplots result the best Finnish night-time drama of the last five years. The writing is smart and witty and reflects the modern world with all its confusement. Though it has continuity and the story lines evolve, every episode has it own separate story. The issues include racism, religion and human rights. This is also the reason why the characterization in this show is so important. Due to the different backgrounds these people have, they see things differently. That's why Käenpesä doesn't preach, it suggests...

Kotikatu is the longest running drama series on Finnish television. Its popularity is not based on dead people brought back to life, conspiracies, people cheating each other or any other controversial elements, but it has a realistic and down to earth approach that pleases especially those, who prefer realism. It's not really a soap-opera. It presents the life of a finnish citizen as it is for most.

The story is centered around Mäkimaa,Luotola and Partanen families and their friends. Mäkimaa's are the upper middle class family and the most stable out of the three fictional families. Family Luotola have always had a lot of dysfunctionality. The father Hannes had an alcohol problem and he's had relationships with several other women during the shows run. Partanen's are the working class family who moved to town to get a fresh start.

"Salatut Elämät" is a high-rated finish soap opera about a bunch of young and older people sharing house in Helsinki, Finland. Over the years the show has changed a lot. Many of the original cast members have left the series to become film stars in their country. From the critical point of view the subjects here are formulaic, but due to the lack of competitors it has gained its success over the years. In the early days of the show it dealed with such controversial issues like homo-sexuality, drugs and teen-pregnancy, but during the last couple of years it has become more of a traditional drama concentrating on human relationships.