Reservatet: La riserva

It is different than what I was used from Scandinavians. Usually they are centered around a weird policeman/woman but this narrative focuses more on a civilian involved. You can guess what is gonna happen if are observant enough. Overall I liked the it was a little bit different than what I was used for Nordic noir series but it wasn't something extraordinary. As I said before you can guess who the plot will roll out l. I loved the actress who played Catarina. She plays the policewoman on other shows and it was interesting to see her in an other role! I found the duration ok although they could have had some more character development.

Overall if you like Nordic noirs I find it decent.

This thriller with the unsurprising twist does a great job of examining the relationship between the ladies that lunch and the au pairs that take care of thier children.

Marie Back Hasen is stunning as the centre point of the story showing the cool unemotional danes verus the emotional Filipino babysitters

The acting is superb

The scenes of au pairs meeting and talking about thier, "employers" is great as well as how they get pressured into doing things

The use of very tall Danes and very short Filipinos is particularly good in the show dont tell rule of film making

It could have been two episodes shorter but definitely worth binging.

I just finished watching Reservatet, and honestly, I thought it was a really good miniseries. Sure, it was a bit predictable in parts, but it still had some twists that caught me off guard, which I appreciated. It kept me interested the whole way through.

I've always thought Denmark does a great job when it comes to film and TV, and this was no exception. There's just something about the way they tell stories that really works. The acting was solid across the board too-everyone brought their A-game and made the characters feel real.

All in all, I'd say Reservatet is definitely worth a watch. Not groundbreaking, but very well done and engaging.

I was hooked on Secrets We Keep from the very first episode. The acting was strong, the storytelling layered, and the suspense built steadily with each chapter. It promised a payoff that felt just out of reach, keeping me invested through every twist and reveal.

But the final episode was a major letdown.

After so much careful buildup, the finale felt rushed and unsatisfying. Key plotlines were either ignored or wrapped up too neatly. Some characters acted in ways that made no sense based on everything we'd seen before, and others just vanished without resolution. Most frustrating was the lack of real emotional payoff-no reckoning, no clarity, no true closure.

It's as if the writers didn't trust the audience to handle a more honest, consequential ending. Instead, we got ambiguity and loose ends where there should have been resolution and depth.

Still, I can't deny how compelling the series was for most of its run. If you enjoy well-acted psychological drama and slow-burning mystery, it's worth watching. Just be prepared: the ending may leave you disappointed.

Okay, let's be clear about this: the sixth episode isn't great. The plot slows down so much just minutes in that you know the next half hour is designed to lull you into a false sense of security before the closing twist. And the closing twist, when it comes, is a bit am-dram or amateur dramatic. It's a bit too loaded in its thesis that rich people will do anything to hold on to what they have, even those of them who think of themselves as good and morally driven. But, that aside, and usually one cannot put the last episode of six aside, the thing is that the first five episodes here are so well done, so well acted, well shot and directed that it's hard not to go from one directly into the next, carried along on the sheer expert pacing of this tale of familial intrigue and the privileges of wealth.

There's a sense of forward propulsion and indeed sheer style about this show (despite the fact that it seems to borrow its soundtrack and indeed its casting style and preferences from Bad Sisters, despite never reaching the brilliance of that script and dialogue.

But as shows about class difference, about family obligations and rights, about the wealthy West and the often scramblingly desperate East (personified here by a young generation of Filipina babysitters who find themselves marooned in basement bedrooms of wealthy upscale Denmark), this is a well-made, sharp-edged and sympathetic tale that is also (for all of those first five episodes and at least for parts of the sixth) highly entertaining and highly recommended.