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I very much enjoyed this Swiss series. The story of the young man Michi caught between his upscale life as a consultant and his family down on the farm causes him distress in his loyalties. Throw in that that he's an initially closeted gay man adds to his anxiety. Lead character Michi is at times a good guy; at times the bad guy. He loves and hurts the people he cares about. His mother, sister, brother & grandmother all figure prominently with their own stories.

It is well acted, and well produced.

Thank you Netflix for bringing this show for the world to see. This is something I have never seen before. Slice-of-life of running a dairy farm. I agree with the first reviewer here the first 4 episodes felt grounded and authentic and the second half is more dramatic and therefore less believable. I would prefer the season finale to be different but it makes sense given there'll be a season 2.

The plot is good and solid, the father dies and leaves a farm. A conflict breaks up among the inheritors, the wife and each son fight for their own selfish interest. The chraracters are good, the acting fine, and the rythm appropriate to allow the viewers to absorb everything and enjoy the drama but then there are a couple of brisk turn of events on the story that look out of pace and tarnish all the good creative job done particularly near the ending. At the first episodes I was wondering if the Imdb average low score was unfair and misleading but after I finished the series I realized why.

Found this series to be somewhat un-easy to watch because I could'nt make my mind up about the character, Katharina, I think has the episodes go by you finally you do realize, things are not as they seem ,and as a viewer I think everyone will have a different opinion of her. I was just surprised she got slapped in the face only once ( based on her character, I stress again ).

The actual plot is brilliant, the acting is good and well worth watching the 8 episodes. I can see why some reviews have considered the ending a little disappointing, but hopefully there will be a second series, because it seemed unfinished.

Overall this series for me was an easy watch, not complicated, only rated it 7/10 because sometimes you just felt they could have just come out with some obvious questions and statements rather then drag it out, but like what i have said, still plenty of scope for a second series.

I binge watched this great show in two days, not expecting much, but getting a truly great series with a solid cast, great story line and even more amazing characters. Wonderful to watch and cant wait for the next season!

To be honest, this is an incredibly soapy, over the top, at times implausible, family drama. But what can I say? I still had great fun watching it. With all their downsides, the plot and the characters are relatable and great acting all around helps a lot. Plus, the production values are impecable, the details of country life are well portrayed (both its refreshing down-to-earthness and sometimes unbearable claustrophobia) as is the ridiculous posturing of a Zurich consulting firm. Be careful if you plan to watch it with young teenagers regardless of the + 13 rating. The erotic scenes (more precisely, homoerotic) are very explicit.

I started watching this to help my Swiss-German (as a Brit living in Zurich) and it had me hooked from the outset. Brilliant story, great acting and I can't wait for the next season.

Interesting series set on a farm struggling for economic survival, owned and managed by an extended family determinedly tearing itself apart. I know more about milk production and corporate finance now than I ever expected (or wanted) to. That part of it did get rather boring and repetitive, and the details of the financial issues difficult to follow. The main character, a gay coke snorting financier, was well played, but the character was rather unlikeable, and it was difficult to see why his boyfriend put up with so much crap from him for as long as he did. I have only watched series one, and this review is limited to that.

The first few episodes are pretty good, but halfway through the season, you realize they are going to stretch out the plot that's been already exhausted into 8 episodes and that's when it gets downhill. The character development was also questionable and some decisions that were made often didn't result from the character arc, so it was very disappointing to see the plot go some ways where you know that the character is going against his character arc. Some characters were too flat and one-dimensional and their decisions were again not backed by anything and it all looks like wishful story writing with some cringe scenes.

By the end of it, I couldn't wait for it to finish.

Summary

The Swiss series New Heights effectively intersects the family drama with the corporate world, the conflicts between family and industrial farming, the pressures of local interests, and the opposition between semi-rural and urban cultures over the fate of a farm near Zürich.

Review

The inheritance and fate of a farm near Zürich gives rise to complex and shifting conflicts between members of a family.

The Wys run an old-fashioned dairy farm called Neumatt (original title of the series). One of the sons, Michi (Julian Koechlin), pursues a promising career as a consultant in Zürich; His sister Sarah (Sophie Hutter) runs a gym in the town near the farm, and his younger brother, Lorenz (Jérome Humm), is the one who seems destined to carry on the family tradition, graduating from an agricultural school. But when the family must meet to decide the future of the farm, a series of conflicts over competing interests are unleashed, generating shifting alliances between its members, as if it were a petit bourgeois Succession. This new dynamic will also stir up and bring to light some family secrets.

At the same time, Michi's consulting firm is working to save a large Swiss dairy company from bankruptcy, which introduces us to corporate dealings related to the dairy industry. In this way, Nuevas Alturas effectively crosses the family drama with the corporate drama, the conflict between family and industrialized agriculture and the pressures of local interests as well as the semi-rural culture with the urban.

With a beginning that threatens to be a thriller, the series outlines its characters very well (sometimes contradictory, sometimes unscrupulous) and confronts them with situations that seem to have no way out but that they later overcome thanks to a generally well-thought-out script. The protagonist, Michi, is the ambitious, impulsive and moody successful gay consultant who is suddenly forced to combine his corporate work with a return to the family farm. But perhaps the most captivating character in the series is Katharina, his mother, in a formidable work by Rachel Braunschweig.

You cannot have superlative performances without a good script, and you can't make a good script out of a lousy story. Certain naysayers on this site do not seem to comprehend this simple fact, the A-B-Cs of a good movie or TV series. New Heights has all three. The story itself is organic and archetypal, here a drama focusing on internecine against the backdrop of the familiar topic of the new pushing out the old. New Heights doesn't exaggerate its points, but tells a story of human frailties and imperfections, in some cases gross imperfections...especially when it comes to families. Only one of the main characters is totally hateful; others, just like in real life, portray characters with both good and bad traits. Familiar? For those who have never acted "childishly" nor had the common misfortune of knowing others who have, I suppose you would not deign this series worthy of your narrow-minded attentions. Again, the acting is as good as it gets, with a particularly jaw-dropping performance be Jerome Hunn, who portrays Lorenz (Lolly) the saint-like human with the flaw of a marginal intelligence.

This Swiss soap tries to be everything to everyone. It's woke with diversity, has different sexual themes in the mix, but the script is so weak, and the editing really choppy, that the viewer has to do a lot of work to connect the dots. There is little sexual chemistry between the two male leads so asking viewers to believe the gay story line is difficult. It's similar to an American Hallmark or Lifetime series, and like Swiss milk chocolate a bit sickly sweet at times.

This was a good series with a relatable lead character. I grew up in the country, ended up working in the city, and enjoyed watching this. Being Netflix they had to squeeze the diversity into it, which felt unnecessary and forced, especially in a Swiss drama. It is pretty irritating and I guarantee it has an effect that is quite the opposite of what the people pushing this so relentlessly are hoping for. I'll still keep watching though, as the lead character is great.

These are all messy people, no character can serve as a moral anchor. Even the granny and the teenager are detestable. But I can't seem to stop watching it.

Intriguing storyline, with really good acting. It's so entertaining that I forget that I am watching with subtitles. Plus I like how the actors look like a range of normal people.

What an awful series with bad characters and childish behaviors. Oh my god. Everything in this series is negative and not recommended for young people. They taught us how to act negatively. Each character was built to be bad and ugly so there is no happy ending or these endings were such horrible. I am very upset to watch a terrible ending for LBGT. Unbelievable and shameful.

What a waste of time watching this serie. The end was terrible and upsetting, everithing bad that happens to the charters is because of their childish and impulsive behaviour. They mess things up, making everybody suffer for their mistakes and then they fell sorry for themselves , this drama doesn't produce sympathy but obnoxiusness.

The premise and setting (the show is based in Switzerland) are great, and I liked that it has a gay character as one of the protagonists.

But there's one big problem with this show that made me not like it in the end. After a while you'll start seeing a pattern. Every time one of the main characters can make a bad decision, they'll do it just to generate additional drama. A lot of the times, what happens in the show is the direct consequence of one of those bad decisions, not some problem from the outside. "Things are finally going great? Well I guess I'll have a mental breakdown. That's resolved too? I guess I'll make a choice that'll piss off my entire family and doesn't really make any sense for my character, but it generates drama so it's good."

It's a very clumsy way of keeping the story going, especially by the time you reach season 2 and can predict what's going to happen by guessing what's the worst possible decision these characters will make.