The biggest problem I have with this series is that my usual mild face blindness has revved up a few notches and I can't tell anyone apart. If it was a production with mainly black characters and I said that I would probably be called racist - even with my reason- and anyway usually it's not that bad with any persuasion if I concentrate. However, it kicks in, in a lot of period pieces or in fact film from that time period.
I digress - so anyway to me all the young white girls look alike, all the young white men, even all the older white ladies the only ones I can tell apart is the Indian doctor, the black woman and thankfully the main woman of the hotel because I know Natascha McElhone very well. So I can never tell whose story arc I'm witnessing, I can't tell whose being dumped, and whose in love with who etc. I can only reason that because I usually- despite my face blindness- can follow most characters in most stories that they are not using the names enough or the pacing just doesn't work well. I don't know, so despite an interesting, but rather uneventful storyline I find my mind confused. So if you don't suffer from face blindness and you can decipher the characters you might like the show a bit better, but right now I'm also up to episode 6 and waiting for something a little more thrilling than a stolen painting and some unfortunate violence from fascists to take place. I do like the different characters even though I can't keep up with each of them and their life lessons, but it's more a scenery piece for the 20s and lovely seaside of Italy. But still a fine production that is holding my interest as well as my confusion.
I digress - so anyway to me all the young white girls look alike, all the young white men, even all the older white ladies the only ones I can tell apart is the Indian doctor, the black woman and thankfully the main woman of the hotel because I know Natascha McElhone very well. So I can never tell whose story arc I'm witnessing, I can't tell whose being dumped, and whose in love with who etc. I can only reason that because I usually- despite my face blindness- can follow most characters in most stories that they are not using the names enough or the pacing just doesn't work well. I don't know, so despite an interesting, but rather uneventful storyline I find my mind confused. So if you don't suffer from face blindness and you can decipher the characters you might like the show a bit better, but right now I'm also up to episode 6 and waiting for something a little more thrilling than a stolen painting and some unfortunate violence from fascists to take place. I do like the different characters even though I can't keep up with each of them and their life lessons, but it's more a scenery piece for the 20s and lovely seaside of Italy. But still a fine production that is holding my interest as well as my confusion.