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If you haven't read the book, you might enjoy this second or third-rate series with lots of famous names in the cast. But the book was really very explicit, so to make this sort of sugary series in which nothing untoward happens or is shown, no full-frontal nudity of either sex... I'm sorry! Utter disappointment, and a complete waste of time. I hope some streaming network might have the guts to do a remake, this time without the Victorian prudishness that is really insulting in this version. Jackie Collins deserves better, and so do we. Dressing the piano legs as obscene is hardly what was needed, even in the 1980-s.

I was going to abandon watching it after the propaganda-style beginning, but I'm glad I continued watching, as all the remaining part of the movie was unexpectedly original and devoid of clichés. The naked bodies and the love / sex scenes are beautifully filmed. The main actor does a terrific job, showing a very wide range of feelings, from ironical debonair nonchalance to despair beyond tears. The entire cast is quite good, the cinematography recreates a believable atmosphere of the years in which the German people were beginning to realise they were going to lose the war, in spite of all the methodical atrocities they perpetrated or merely witnessed. Quite an unexpected ending...

... that seems to be that Season 5 is mainly characterised by miscasting. Some people criticise a certain choice of actor or actress, others another, but they all agree in general that whoever was in charge of casting this time did a very poor job. The leftist bias that had already become obvious in the previous season is getting even more acute here, and I suppose it will make the next one almost impossible to watch for a rather large part of the members of the public. Woke preaching, even when allegedly coming out of the mouth of members of the royal family, would have been more appropriate in a working-class story.