Rough Diamonds (2023– )
4/10
PREDICTABLE SOAP OPERA
23 April 2023
This series is not for me. I saw 3 episodes and the rest I passed quickly with the remote. From the first episode it is very preditable and quite a family soap, and in a bad way.

About Noah, the main character..is the only son who is the black sheep of the family, who has left his Jewish past returns to Antwerp to go to his brother's funeral and becomes a kind of hero with Liam Neeson skills that are really unrealistic and not logical at all. He looks almost like a cartoon.

The actress Tina Joustra(Kerra McCabe), who I did not know, is a Dutch actress and from the first moment she is forcing the English accent, because she is supposed to be from London, they could have chosen a real English actor. Badly made.

They are several inconcistencies throughout, such as the continuous change of languages during the dialoges and in the same conversation, very tiresome. And the changes of wigs or hair and costumes in the same scene, makes is somewhat cheap.

The only interesting thing for me is the Jewish culture and traditions in Antwerp, that is quite well done and told. Although this family is really hypocriet!, so.. not nice to watch either!

There are some exciting moments but they are not in balance with the long dialogues and the slow and repetitive scenes. The balance of these two things is very poorly done which makes it very boring and unrealistic.

I loved seeing the Belgian actor Gene Bervoets again, I like him a lot and it was a while, very nice Gene!
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