PaxtonMalloy

I had the pleasure of seeing this film in a small independent cinema in the heart of Berlin, and it exceeded my expectations. It does what is so often missing in our public discourse: it doesn't just give you the facts, the science, and the numbers - it connects them to what truly matters: emotion.

It shows you the people behind "migration." It gives them an identity.

There's a scene where you see a boat on the verge of sinking because there are far too many people on it, and a woman desperately waves her child in the air to show that there are children on board. Show that on prime-time television, and the discourse about migration would change.

If you start a new show you want an interesting premise because people wouldn't be that curious about "just another" show of people dating. So thats why in the beginning the whole they are in love but she is not jewish thing was ok. I guess for some people this would be a real thing. But later in the show it just becomes this joker card the show pulls out to make up a conflict it absolutely does not need. This show is charming, it is funny and easy to watch. It is about people trying to master their messy relationships and that totally works. So just get rid of the premise the show has surpassed it.

This is a very entertaining show featuring two great Danish actors, Karen-Lise Mynster and David Dencik, who portray the unfairness and helplessness of a broken and corrupt system. But it does more than that. It captures one of the saddest and most tragic truths about our current society. It even offers a metaphor for it when one private individual stands trial for using Cum-Ex to his advantage. You're punishing someone for stealing an apple from a store while an entire mob of gangsters is emptying all the shelves.

And at least in Germany, that is exactly what's happening. While no one seems to care about Cum-Ex - the biggest robbery of state money, estimated at 150 billion euros - the media, politicians, and the majority of citizens are preoccupied with the 0.3% of the population who might unjustly receive 650 euros a month in low-income or unemployment support. So cudos to a great show for potraying the current "zeitgeist" and its tragic.