Best depiction I have seen to date to even begin to address a complex subject.
And I'd describe it as a Dark Comedy. Hats off to the writers for their insight.
Entertainment value was an aside for me because of the subject matter, but there is no other way to present the topic and I found it riveting. For those who know who their biological parents are the term MPE means Misattributed Parent Event, and with the advent of direct to consumer DNA testing the numbers of these discoveries are growing exponentially. And, the discovery is traumatic and life altering to myriads of degree.
I had 62 years of living before I found out that I was adopted, plus I never had siblings, so there's no doubt that my perspective differs from most everyone else. I actually missed the 1st episode and intend to watch it and the others again, but in each episode there were facets of emotions and situations I could relate to as well as getting a perspective on what it could be like having hundreds of 'disconnected' siblings. I feel like watching the individual personalities and 'stories' unfold is as close to a 'universal' feel for our situations as one can get, and it certainly can't cover them all.
I don't think it would be possible to do justice to all of the traumatic experiences in even a second (or third) series of shows but I would think it surely makes inroads of awareness for anyone who has no doubt where they came from, and that's progress imo.
My biggest takeaway is that we're all unique and simply held together by small threads of commonality, some threads superficial & some very emotionally deep.
Not actually a Spoiler- while the last episode certainly left an opening for a second season (which I had hoped for), I felt very satisfied that it was an appropriate way to end the entire series.
Entertainment value was an aside for me because of the subject matter, but there is no other way to present the topic and I found it riveting. For those who know who their biological parents are the term MPE means Misattributed Parent Event, and with the advent of direct to consumer DNA testing the numbers of these discoveries are growing exponentially. And, the discovery is traumatic and life altering to myriads of degree.
I had 62 years of living before I found out that I was adopted, plus I never had siblings, so there's no doubt that my perspective differs from most everyone else. I actually missed the 1st episode and intend to watch it and the others again, but in each episode there were facets of emotions and situations I could relate to as well as getting a perspective on what it could be like having hundreds of 'disconnected' siblings. I feel like watching the individual personalities and 'stories' unfold is as close to a 'universal' feel for our situations as one can get, and it certainly can't cover them all.
I don't think it would be possible to do justice to all of the traumatic experiences in even a second (or third) series of shows but I would think it surely makes inroads of awareness for anyone who has no doubt where they came from, and that's progress imo.
My biggest takeaway is that we're all unique and simply held together by small threads of commonality, some threads superficial & some very emotionally deep.
Not actually a Spoiler- while the last episode certainly left an opening for a second season (which I had hoped for), I felt very satisfied that it was an appropriate way to end the entire series.