This series is about a very uncomfortable topic - anyone with money can simply go on the dark web and buy a baby, regardless of who they are. While this specific story is fiction, according to what they say it is based on things that actually do happen on the dark web, that are normally ignored by the goverments and the media all over the world, as everyone pretend it doesn't exist because they can't stop it.
I think this series is very brave to touch this topic that is often very hard to watch. It is also original and unique, as you don't normally see things that go that far with stories about the trafficking of new born babies. In addition, the acting level is pretty good.
The main thing that bothered me about the series is that it felt like there were too many "coincidences", things that according to the storyline we are expected to believe that were just randomly put together by faith despite them being heavily connected, main example is related to the homeless women's brother but it isn't the only one. It is very predictable early on where the storyline is going with them so you can totally see it coming, but as a viewer I was still a little disappointed that I'm expected to believe this is all just faith, like the chances of these coincidences randomly happening in real life is probably one in a million, so to me it felt a bit cheap to solve it like that, especially when it happened with more than one thing.
The writing was really good for the first 8 episodes. For the last 2 episodes I thought they were a bit messy and rushed, things there were moving quick near the end and not always fully explained, almost as if they ran out of budget to properly explore the story behind what happened, but I think that can be forgiven as it still didn't feel like the end was disappointing, just kinda rushed if that makes sense.
And this is just a minor nitpick, but the whole cheating related storyline felt completely meaningless and boring, it had zero effect on the series and felt like cheap filler content, though it's not a huge deal but you could simply skip that part completely and the series would remain exactly the same.
Despite all of the above though, I still think this was a good series about an important topic and I would still recommend it. I also think it's the type of series that could be interesting to watch even if you are not from Israel because the topic is a worldwide problem that sadly doesn't get the attention that it needs around the world, so I wouldn't be surprised if this series will make it into other countries in the future.
I think this series is very brave to touch this topic that is often very hard to watch. It is also original and unique, as you don't normally see things that go that far with stories about the trafficking of new born babies. In addition, the acting level is pretty good.
The main thing that bothered me about the series is that it felt like there were too many "coincidences", things that according to the storyline we are expected to believe that were just randomly put together by faith despite them being heavily connected, main example is related to the homeless women's brother but it isn't the only one. It is very predictable early on where the storyline is going with them so you can totally see it coming, but as a viewer I was still a little disappointed that I'm expected to believe this is all just faith, like the chances of these coincidences randomly happening in real life is probably one in a million, so to me it felt a bit cheap to solve it like that, especially when it happened with more than one thing.
The writing was really good for the first 8 episodes. For the last 2 episodes I thought they were a bit messy and rushed, things there were moving quick near the end and not always fully explained, almost as if they ran out of budget to properly explore the story behind what happened, but I think that can be forgiven as it still didn't feel like the end was disappointing, just kinda rushed if that makes sense.
And this is just a minor nitpick, but the whole cheating related storyline felt completely meaningless and boring, it had zero effect on the series and felt like cheap filler content, though it's not a huge deal but you could simply skip that part completely and the series would remain exactly the same.
Despite all of the above though, I still think this was a good series about an important topic and I would still recommend it. I also think it's the type of series that could be interesting to watch even if you are not from Israel because the topic is a worldwide problem that sadly doesn't get the attention that it needs around the world, so I wouldn't be surprised if this series will make it into other countries in the future.
