GR5

Please give this really excellent TV production a fair chance and don't believe the 3 previous very bad reviews!

This is an excellent series. It had all the ingredients of a thrilling crime series and a compelling family drama. The only remark i have is that it's sometimes a bit confusing because of the many flashbacks. But as the story progressed and the link from the past to the present becomes clearer, the series gets even more strength and depth.

I found Violet Braeckman excellent as Zoë, the real "main" character, and she is supported by an really excellent and large cast who come in and out of the story. Lucas Van den Eynde and Viv Van Dingenen were also compelling as Lisa's parents. But to me Braeckman was a revelation and i hope to see more of her in the future.

The atmosphere on walking the hiking trail Grande Randonnée 5, with the heavy physical effort and mutual tensions between the different characters was (in my opinion) superbly depicted.

Also important to mention are the utterly superb locations we are able to see on the route of the GR5.

In short: to me GR5 is top notch. . . an excellent piece of television.

The story could be told in less episodes, maybe 6 instead of 8, because there is a lot of talking and establishment and even repetition in the first few episodes.

As in every good mystery series there are some clever detours and I especially liked the human story of Ylena's character.

Overall he story continues to intrigue and you want to know what happened to Lisa. At the end, you are then left a bit hungry because that very question is not fully answered. Many secrets do come out in the course of the series, but Lisa's is kept. In the end it turns out that all the characters had to undertake the trip themselves to come to terms with their past.

The performance of the young actors made me cringe. Bad acting made emotional scenes akward or even laughable. The many plot twists ruined the story. Not worthy of your time.

I agree, this is excellent television and deserves the attention of those who did not see it. Great nature and views, interesting story, intriguing, exciting, good cast, ... Me and my friends, collegues, family, .... were very enthousiastic about this! Do watch this, if you didn't see it!

I don't really understand the bad reviews here. Granted, the side-stories (the different dangerous encounters), are maybe a little bit over the top but for the rest this series is a masterpiece. Beautifully filmed, the music is great and it's all about intense real feelings: the longing for adventure, feeling trapped in normal life, prejudging, extreme and raw grieve, sorrow, the impact of lies and the impact of having the feeling to have no roots at all. About friendship, complex and forbidden love, mortality and killed innocence. About trauma and loneliness. And even about honest feelings about the complexity of having children (not all sunshine, not at all).

Maybe it's because I recognize a lot that I like it, but it's certainly not as a bad as sometimes written here. Also the GR5 is a character and a vocation to the beauty of European nature.

It touched me and I want to see it again.