So this is a 100% Dutch series peeking inside 100% Dutch culture. A group of friends called 'Shared home friends' (huisgenoten) apparently knowing each other from living together in a (student) hous now all or most living apart but still meeting and interacting very intensely. Situated in Amsterdam so for thos thousands and thousands of expacts living there it might be a good start to learn Dutch because that is the culture you also live in? The series will be hard to translate since 50% of the scenes contain whatsapp messages (in Dutch) which will be difficult to translate - even being a relatively good representation of how many of us live these days. The acting, languages, situations are all spot-on and there is hardly any irritating or unlikely scene. So that's pretty good. Problems that occur, hjow the're solved or not, situations,all very recognizable - I guess all over the western world. So far so good. Downside for me: 4 series of each 24 episodes. I watched the first 24. Pretty much hooked. #24 also pretty much 'all is well that ends well' even when this was an 8 hour event. Then I peeked into the previews of the next 3x24 episodes and continuously new problems and people are brought forward and I thought: no more of this. Pretty tiring actually even when pretty good. They should have stopped after series 1 but I'm sure others disagree strongly.
