Le Noël de trop

Echoes of 'Dan In Real Life', 'What We Did On Our Holidays', and 'Home For The Holidays', all of which are practically perfect love.

Voice overs done fairly well, but the translators have GOT to return to using 'damn' and 'hell' rather than vocab that is disgusting, especially at Christmas. We just don't need that imagery.

The relationships and situations are tough to watch and grandma's crudeness was overdone, so didn't come off as funny.

The one and only Black character was stereotypical. Sad.

BUT... We loved being in a beautiful German village for a few hours. Loved the multi-episode form. Loved the messages. Loved the imagined scenarios.

Netflix seriously underestimates its audience at Christmas. I just can't get into the dozen or so Hallmark/Lifetime style movies they churn out every year... so formulaic and cheesy.

It was SUCH a refreshing change of pace to find a laugh out loud funny, heartwarming, and much more honest take on the holidays. Sure there were some predictable plot points, but in all I found the characters to be genuine and loved the escapist scenery.

It's really good but worth noting it's dubbed English, I didn't realise this at first and thought it was out of sync...it's really good! Give it a go if you like sarcasm and Christmas.

Actually right now, I think the only thing I want has nothing to do with Christmas and I bet almost every person on this planet wants: the end of the pandemic and the restrictions. But let's not get political or into details, because if you don't like my review I hope it is because you don't like the review and not what my thoughts are on the pandemic.

That being said, it seems that doing tv shows/series is the thing to do right now. This could easily have been a movie and a bit shorter instead of a 3 part series. But what do I know right? Anyway well acted and quite the heroes journey (if you are lost, I just mean the main character and his discovery tour through the movie). Well acted and edited, this works quite nicely.

I'm not a real fan of Luke and got talked into watching this show by my wife. But boy was I happy about it. It's a light enjoyable tv show. It never gets to cheese. The family life is shown in a quite realistic way but what I find even more important is the way that our jelousy works is shown pretty good and how we can get lost in unimportant stuff without noticing that we are the ones limiting ourselfs and not the others.