Sex and the City is sort of a "dig me" surrounded by fan girls and a fashion show along with desirable successful men with nothing better to do than to obsess over Sarah Jessica Parker. It gets old, and her frequent squeaky screaming, combined with an unenlightened obsession with Manolo Blahnik shoes, awakens a desire to throw her overboard, mid-Atlantic. Not a favorite. Why I feel the need to punish myself with this kind of dreck mystifies me. It's a billion times better than Girls, however, so things are looking up.
I did watch, for sheer pleasure, another Berlin-based show, this time a miniseries, "Unorthodox." About a young woman, aged 19, trapped in a stultifying Orthodox Jewish marriage in Brooklyn NY, who escapes to Berlin. It's 4 episodes. I watched it on a streaming site and the chunks of Yiddish dialogue, without subtitles, were a little challenging to slog through (it's kind of like Middle High German), helped by occasional English words and phrases interjected into the mix. There are frequent flashbacks to her former life in Brooklyn, to give context to the journey. Tension arises due to her family's efforts to drag her back, etc. So it's a quest for freedom and liberation, oddly enough, by a young Jewish girl, seeking solace in Berlin, an irony in itself that goes unaddressed.
But it was a satisfying series -- well acted and sort of spare in production. She ends up at a music academy and finds kindred spirits there. I think it's on Netflix, where they may even provide subtitles.
