Family Secrets (2022– ) User Reviews

4 episodes too many

[krazyj2472002 · 6/10 · 22 September 2022]

I really enjoyed this for the most part. But once again, Netflix has drawn out what could be a great 3 or 4 episide show to a mind numbing 8. The characters are all interesting. I was disappointed in having the Professor go bat s**t crazy. I like strong, intelligent woman characters. I was looking forward to her leaving Emil for her own sake, not some dellusional fantasy. Didn't make sense to me.

I also don't understand why reviews need to be 600 charcters now. It makes you write stuff just to be able to submit a review! The ending, while a great cliff hanger, pissed me off, especially if there is no season 2!

Wonderful series

[alinemarie · 7/10 · 9 February 2023]

This is one of the best miniseries I've seen lately, it manages brilliantly to keep the interest, the suspense, there's a surprise at every corner. Family and couples, all intertwined in an entertaining way.

Mostly a comedy, but with lots of the drama that comes always with the family theme; then we have almost a thriller at times, a sense of danger, but there's constantly a good feeling about the characters and their struggles, a hope that it will all be fine.

And that wedding...it seems that it will never happen, all kind of elements show up and interrupt, like a neverending story....there's something strange in the air, besides love.

Begins well, but ending is very dissapointing

[duszek · 2/10 · 7 September 2022]

Hilarious at first, very dissfunctional families with interesting plot mixing, but the closer to end you get, the more dissappinting it is. Not worth investing your time.

This series is set in Poland, Warsaw (mostly) with interesting settings, albeit everyone seems to be quite rich :-) Actors are playing well and technically it is very well made including sound and music. Polish productions are often lacking in sound quality (especially dialogs), but this one is actually impressive.

If the screenwriter(s) and director have done a good job with the final episodes, it would be a much different review (at least 7 out of 10). Maybe not Game of Thrones bad, but makes you feel you have lost time put into learning the story.

If it only was squeezed in 3 episodes

[enitar · 3/10 · 18 September 2022]

Seriously? They made long eight episodes with all these uncountable flashbacks to give us nothing in the very end?

The idea of telling story about an neverending wedding day when two unhappy people who even don't love each other and have a very complicated history of the last eight months cannot get married is not bad at all. But not in eight episodes. Not these more and more story plots and characters.

Three or four compact episodes with less characters and with cancelled unnecessary comedy elements and added more developed drama, then it would be excellent. Now it looks like silly soap opera, unfortunately.

Most Dysfunction Family and Hysterical Wedding

[PalmBeachG · 8/10 · 5 September 2022]

Family Secrets on Netflix. This will be the most dysfunctional family drama you will ever watch. It is centered around the wedding and bride (main lead female) who is 7 months pregnant. It is hysterically humorous as all the family secrets come out at the wedding, one by one. Basically everybody is or was sleeping with everyone else on both sides of the family and the bride hasn't been truthful who the father of the baby really is - which of course is why the secrets start coming out. One delay after another happens. There are additional skeletons that come out as well that add drama to the story. I didn't know how to rate this however because it was a little bit confusing as they keep going back (during the wedding) to scenes from the past in order to reveal the past secrets and it was a little difficult to keep who is who straight and also the ending was extremely distressing and there is obviously an indication for season 2 but there is no word from Netflix if that will be happening or not.

Waste of time

[chrisssj07 · 2/10 · 1 November 2022]

Total waste of time. Completely unrealistic plot, poor dialogues and characters making increasingly stupid decisions. Started well, first two episodes were interesting and funny but it went downhill from there, and the convention of the series changed from a pleasant comedy to a very poor mix of absurd comedy, bloody drama and pure nonsense. The series mixes timelines/jumps back and forth between events - I imagine the idea was to let the viewer make up their mind about characters and events, to then make them reevaluate their opinions by revealing new facts and viewpoints - but it failed miserably. Characters would have to be sociopaths and have extremely bad selective amnesia to make it all tie up in any way.

Large multi-voice choir

[danybur · 8/10 · 27 September 2022]

Summary

Family Secrets is a sophisticated ensemble story that exceeds dramatic comedy, combining it with other genres and exhibiting a very ingenious narrative structure, with twists and turns in time combined with changes in point of view that permanently redefine certain situations and the motivations of its characters.

Review

A wedding is constantly interrupted by the hesitations of the future spouses and the interference of their relatives.

For some time now, the series show a certain concern to get out of the chronologically linear stories. Family Secrets is a choral story with skilfully alternate roles that successfully combines their comings and goings in time with a change in point of view, with a return to the same situations but from the perspective of a different character. This adds information about what is happening and the motivations of the characters and modifies its meaning (for the viewer and for the characters), also playing with ambiguity and misunderstanding.

In essence, the series unravels the intricate relationship between the bride and groom and their respective families (the Wilskas and the Jaworowicz). To do this, he also resorts to another constant in modern series: the combination of genres. Family Secrets exceeds the dramatic comedy, since in addition to displaying that dry Polish humor it can (and knows how to) get very serious and quite dark, venturing into noir, going through the comedy of intrigues and the romantic comedy.

As usually happens with these series, and for all these reasons, it takes a while to get into its dynamic (something that also happens with The White Lotus, for example); but sooner or later empathy begins with its great gallery of characters with their respective registers (each one will have their favorites; in my case, Dorota, by Edyta Olszówka), without prejudice to our perception of them changing with time. The running of the chapters in some cases. This goes hand in hand with a great cast, including Eliza Rycembel (Corpus Christi) as the bride and Bartosz Gelner as the groom.

The series sharply focuses on marriage, fidelity, generational conflicts and, tangentially, class conflicts and is quite harsh with the medical and academic world.

LOVED IT ! Hope there is a season 2 !

[chandra-49765 · 10/10 · 20 April 2023]

Funny, Jaw dropping and worthy of a binge watch ! The characters take you on a roller Coaster ride all during a wedding! It goes back and forth in time giving you a different perspective each time. It's a thrill ride sigh some comedy mixed it ! I need a season 2!!!!!! The reverend and the nuns at the wedding were comic relief ! I honestly changed my opinion on the characters a dozen times lol I would be thinking one guy was causing all The trouble then a different flash back would change my mind . I think my jaw fell open several times in pure astonishment over the choices made by characters. A little bit of nudity and some blood .. but when played in English I don't recall cursing . One big negative was the medical students and the dr's smoking ! This is present day settings and medical personal know better now .