The Vineyard (2021) User Reviews

Don't use the English dubbing

[jglass-75187 · 8/10 · 2 April 2021]

The English dubbing is absolutely horrible. If you want to enjoy what this series has to offer, switch to the Spanish (Spain) audio with English subtitles. This is the original audio for the film and it so much better to listen to even if you don't speak Spanish.

Keep watching the series

[elenamava · 8/10 · 29 March 2021]

The first episode is slow and make me think to quit, but my mom insists to me to follow and as the good daughter I am I did it. It gets better when you get into the story. Well acting, costumes and intrigue.

Kept me interested

[lindahass-79102 · 8/10 · 17 April 2021]

Almost finished with this series...story is well done and I love the architecture and costumes. Dubbing is horrible..lol.

Awesome!

[lunamariapaintoil · 10/10 · 11 April 2021]

One of the most beautiful adaptations from a book. The mature love story of the period time is amazing. Very intense in expressing feelings without actually saying too much. The romance between the characters comes softly, a friendship, a look, a touch, an action of support, chemistry from the start and sensible phrases, are the perfect combination between their live problems and their feelings.

Empowering and strong values surrounding the story, I really enjoyed it and loved it. I wanted more than 10 episodes.

Perfect combination between English and Spanish.

Not too bad at all

[cratchettbob · 7/10 · 10 April 2021]

This is a binge watching series. I have to agree with everybody else that the English dubbing is atrocious. The English subtitles supplied are actually USA subtitles but are OK if you can forgive 'gotten' and the like.

Goofs aplenty, my favourite being the double yellow lines painted on the roads in London in the 19th century.

All in all, not bad.

Slow at first but very good!

[isabellaguevarapantoja · 10/10 · 28 March 2021]

Binged the whole thing. I really enjoyed this time period series. Not too much of a fan of the English dubbed version, the subtitles did just fine. The first two episodes feel a bit slow, but I think it's worth the watch. It's perfectly shot in such beautiful locations and the actors were brilliant, the character development was fantastic.

Enjoyed this series

[informationmailboxme · 7/10 · 2 April 2021]

We just finished watching this on Amazon Prime Video. I know its in Spanish and normally we would watch it using English subtitles but it started playing in English voiceovers so we left it. The clothes are amazing. The story was good and I would like a second season with the two main characters building the winery back up to its former glory.

Is it my imagination or is that Keanu Reeves doing the lead actors voiceover?

A delight to watch

[arcasney · 10/10 · 11 April 2021]

A wonderful story of two characters and their difficulties in life. The mature love and complicity of the couple to fix their problems. The stars are great Mauro and Soledad and the views are stunning. One of the best adaptations of books that I have seen.

Highly recommend it!

WTF

[skjejku · 7/10 · 12 June 2021]

A fairly good series. Too slow for my likings. Probably the worst voices and dubbing since Godzilla was made in Japan.

Eye strain

[mojo-72784 · 4/10 · 29 March 2021]

I'm not sure who was in charge of lighting for this series but it's so dark. I'm 4 episodes in and having eye strain (I have 20/20 vision). Trying to watch this involves squinting and hoping I can guess the character based off the horrible dubbed voices. I have nonissue with wanting a natural approach but candle placement was horrid. The plot lines leave lots of loops with multiple underdeveloped side characters who don't seem to help move the plot along. This is definitely a slow moving plot, think Wallander paced.

Wonderful

[meaganmorgan-89822 · 10/10 · 31 March 2021]

I really enjoyed this movie. I don't speak Spanish, and using the dubs would be ridiculous (so I don't recommend you even try), but watch while reading the subtitles. I'm an avid reader, so not only does this bother me, but I actually enjoy it. You learn so much about other cultures from watching shows like this.

Aside from the language barrier topic, this show was incredible. The acting is spectacular, the costumes and sets are absolutely amazing, and the story line is beautifully written. I would absolutely love for them to continue and make a season two with the same actors, but if not, I am still glad I watched season one.

Who did the closed captioning?

[seaney-linda · 6/10 · 29 March 2021]

I'm halfway through first episode, very stilted dialogue and absolutely awful CC.

I'm going to steady in, based on reviews, but I truly hope it gets better.

Confusing

[jleeharris-36991 · 5/10 · 29 March 2021]

Its called "The Vineyard" but the lead character owns a silver mine. This could have been so good but jumps back and forth and there is no continuity of the story. The English audio was terrible, so I watched it in Spanish with English subtitles. It was okay, but I probably won't watch if there are any more seasons.

Addictive, lovely drama

[carty26 · 10/10 · 7 April 2021]

Watch it in Spanish with the subtitles, the English dubbing is terrible. Great story, costumes, actors. Hope there is more to come. I'm 2/3 of the way through and hate to stop watching.

Horrible dubbing but good story

[margeryreinheardt · 7/10 · 16 April 2021]

How anyone could add such a horrible job of dubbing to what us a good film with great scenery and characters is beyond me!

I loved it!

[vjonesgj · 10/10 · 28 March 2021]

Yes, the English translation a little awkward but it's better than trying to read the translation.

A mixed offering

[RachelMary2 · 6/10 · 31 January 2024]

I watched this for Spanish listening practice. It's a modern production in a dated kinda style, which gives it a quirkiness that I enjoyed. The settings and the costumes in particular gave it an other-world fairytale quality; this is not a gritty reflection of real life but more of an intelligent soap opera in miniature.

I found the storyline confusing and overly complicated, in part maybe because my Spanish isn't great but mainly I think because it was filled and stretched to cover 10 episodes. I haven't read the book so don't know how true to the book it is, but with an adaption sometimes simplifying the story does better justice to the text.

It definitely has a compelling charm to it and visually it's beautifully done, but I felt the story would have been stronger with less time and "filling".

Wonderful Interesting Story

[hmd455 · 8/10 · 10 April 2021]

The Vineyard is a series that really is exceptional at keeping your interest and making you want to go on and watch another episode when you really need to stop. I actually watched it all in three days which may seem like a lot to some people, but is far beyond my usual pace.

I thoroughly enjoyed the drama, adventure, and how so many lives are always affected by others. The beauty of the scenery and the lovely visuals of the time enchants the mind and you quickly fall in love with the story being told.

This production was originally in Spanish so the American version converted to English has a few faults that you totally recognize, but can get past because of the wonderful advancing plot.

The English dubbing sounds way to much like a bad 1970's karate movie with the high pitched voices and dull delivered dialogue. At least the speaking is in sync with the words being spoken and you don't have to see the mouth move then the words like some English dubbed movies.

Some of the lines are a little corny and ridiculous and as I mentioned above are spoken in a weird abnormal way. Still this is a tremendous story of two people never destined to meet that cross paths finally through their dealings with so many other people in their lives.

The villains are quite sneaky and mean and it pushes our heroes to limits that they probably would've never thought they would be capable of. As in real life money is always the thing that makes people do crazy things.

The story is awesome if not for the poor dubbing I would give it a ten.

I'd rather have read subtitles

[karen-shaffer · 4/10 · 7 April 2021]

The plot was nice but the horrible voice over made it unpleasant to watch and the acting seemed terrible. It's unclear if it was or if it was the voice over.

The scenery was fantastic.

Great Mini series or Series!

[sharontinnin-14604 · 8/10 · 4 April 2021]

Loved everything about except the voice-over.. not the best. But I'm looking forward to next season.

Horrible voice over

[supyno-2 · 1/10 · 6 April 2021]

The voice over is horrible. Slavery Is being overplayed, writer's need to find new material.

Beautiful Vivid and Moving

[seagoby · 10/10 · 27 April 2021]

A beautifully made movie. From costumes to locations and storyline, all are amazing. Acting is quite good and even with dubbing the acting is emotionally moving.

Simply Fabulous

[stetten57 · 10/10 · 5 May 2021]

One of the greatest drama series I've ever watched.

The actors were brilliant. The storyline was gripping.

Hoping for a 2nd season.

Excellent Series, dubbing is AWFUL

[ramosmeghan · 10/10 · 26 March 2023]

One of the most beautiful and engaging series I've watched in some time. Even though it's pretty predictable, it was so entertaining - we binge watched the first 7 episodes in one sitting. Beautifully shot, lovable characters - I genuinely loved the struggle over goodness and decency - they addressed the horrors of slavery without making me feel like I was watching woke propaganda. I can't remember the last show that I enjoyed and rooted for the characters so much. The bit with the monastery was a little much - and the very end could have had a little more intimacy between the main characters, but overall this is going in my favorites.

I do need to rant here though, why on earth does this series default to English audio when it's filmed in Spanish? I tried to switch it to the Spain Audio but the subtitles were such a mess, out of alignment and poorly translated- I had to put it back to English audio. I generally prefer subtitles over dubbing, because so many of these Spanish shows are dubbed so poorly and my Spanish just isn't good enough to go without subtitles. The whole time I kept thinking, I wish I could be listening to their actual voices and it nearly ruined the series for me. I'll never understand why they don't hire voice actors with proper accents. Castilian, Mexican and Caribbean accents are like characters in their own right and you completely miss out that in this English dubbed version. It's like a children's animated movie, not a period romance drama.

I hate dubbing

[kmhowie · 5/10 · 24 January 2022]

My rating of 5 is arbitrary. It took me about 5 minutes to give up on it. I refuse to watch a show that was made in a foreign (non-English) language that is offered only in a dubbed version. There appears to be a way to watch it with Spanish audio and English subtitles but I could not get this to work.