One of the absolute best shows I've ever seen, but it absolutely wreaked me. It stays with you long after you've finished it. Really makes you think. I also hope this mini series's wins lots of awards. It should. The fact you can't stop thinking about it and cry days afterwards is a testimony to the material, but also the actors portrayals. Even the supporting actors were well cast and amazing.
I don't know how many people who watched understood that when Dex was recalling their times together in his mind in the last episode, in the very last scene where he turned back around and came back to Em and started kissing her passionately - that never happened. That's what he WISHED he had done looking back, now that in present day he knew she was indeed the great love of his life. Then he would have never wasted all those many years apart when they could have been spent together with Em. That's what this show is about. Wasted time. Missed, precious opportunities. So sad. Very heart wrenching.
I wish people would stop talking about the actress not being pretty enough for the part (their opinion). She was definitely pretty enough, but the emphasis was on how she stood out to Dex being the person she was, whom he found to be very deep and honest and passionate about things that mattered to her. He just adored her as a person and this is what fueled their many year best friendship. If she was a stunner, their relationship would have been no different from all the other women Dex was with romantically. Em was different. That was the point, so physically she also looked different, meaning not a stunner, though definitely pretty in her own right. (And she was meant to look physically awkward in her younger years, and grew into her beauty more as the years went by.)
I agree with other reviewers about really missing pivotal scenes that were never shown...when Dex and Em finally consummated their relationship (which we had no idea based upon how each behaved after Dex arrived back in Paris for a visit until he grabbed at her once in her apartment and started kissing her), when they got married, etc. Although discussed, I really wanted to see these scenes play out.
I also watched the preview for the 2011 movie I keep reading about, but the dialogue between the actors seems very rushed, compared to this version so I don't think I'd enjoy watching it.
I've read the series follows the novel so I'll definitely give that a read.
So definitely give it a watch, prepare to binge (it's really hard to stop once you start watching), and after episode 12 get many boxes of tissues ready and prepare to have your heart just pulled out of you as you watch things unfold in the most heart wrenching, saddest way possible. Like is full of ups and downs, happiness and sadness, love and loss and time lost and grief, then the start of healing. Well worth the watch.
I don't know how many people who watched understood that when Dex was recalling their times together in his mind in the last episode, in the very last scene where he turned back around and came back to Em and started kissing her passionately - that never happened. That's what he WISHED he had done looking back, now that in present day he knew she was indeed the great love of his life. Then he would have never wasted all those many years apart when they could have been spent together with Em. That's what this show is about. Wasted time. Missed, precious opportunities. So sad. Very heart wrenching.
I wish people would stop talking about the actress not being pretty enough for the part (their opinion). She was definitely pretty enough, but the emphasis was on how she stood out to Dex being the person she was, whom he found to be very deep and honest and passionate about things that mattered to her. He just adored her as a person and this is what fueled their many year best friendship. If she was a stunner, their relationship would have been no different from all the other women Dex was with romantically. Em was different. That was the point, so physically she also looked different, meaning not a stunner, though definitely pretty in her own right. (And she was meant to look physically awkward in her younger years, and grew into her beauty more as the years went by.)
I agree with other reviewers about really missing pivotal scenes that were never shown...when Dex and Em finally consummated their relationship (which we had no idea based upon how each behaved after Dex arrived back in Paris for a visit until he grabbed at her once in her apartment and started kissing her), when they got married, etc. Although discussed, I really wanted to see these scenes play out.
I also watched the preview for the 2011 movie I keep reading about, but the dialogue between the actors seems very rushed, compared to this version so I don't think I'd enjoy watching it.
I've read the series follows the novel so I'll definitely give that a read.
So definitely give it a watch, prepare to binge (it's really hard to stop once you start watching), and after episode 12 get many boxes of tissues ready and prepare to have your heart just pulled out of you as you watch things unfold in the most heart wrenching, saddest way possible. Like is full of ups and downs, happiness and sadness, love and loss and time lost and grief, then the start of healing. Well worth the watch.