watched the drama, and ordered the book but not received it yet. I actually loved the drama. My husband ( Afro American) worked at US Embassy of a developing country for 2 years, and I went there with him and 2 small children. How drama portraits the expats' lives are very accurate in details. Luxury condos, Philippina nannies and maids, dinner parties, spoiled children by nannies, local exteremely wealthy wives from old money, lots of struggling middle class people, etc. The expats lives in a bubble separated from outside. Life is unfair and wealth is divided extremely unequally in most of developing countries. It's very hard to relate or understand each other beyond these walls. I think this drama portraits so many characters from different classes nationalities and backgrounds in order to show us no matter how different each situations are, life is a struggle and we all have problems. And we all have to find something positive within us to continue to live.
It does sound like literary fiction, it's the best genre for reading about drama between messy people being a mess. I've been living my lit fic moment too
Idk for sure cuz I haven’t seen the show, but from what you described it still sounds like the show is about motherhood. One of the ladies was deciding she DIDN’T want to be a mother which is a big part of motherhood. You have to be real with yourself and decide if you would be fit to be a mother. The other young lady was becoming a mother and the third was dealing with the loss of her child. To me, it seems very much so still centered around motherhood and the different experiences and choices women make around it. They just took a different route and decided to add more variety by including someone who decided not to be a mother highlighting that being a mother shouldn’t be taken lightly and the decision to become one should be well thought out and taken seriously. That’s my pov from your description of it at least.
Absolutely, I didn’t mean to imply it wasn’t there at all but the book pressed a little harder than the show did especially when it came to other relationships between characters.
@@CirrenaMarie Don’t worry, Poor Things is a hot topic right now bcos of its Oscar. The hate comments will go down in a few weeks when the hype fades away. I also hated Poor Things and some people are VERY reactive to seeing a negative review (which points out how creepy it is!).
Haven't read the book and watched I think most of one episode. It didn't hold my interest because I wasn't feeling Nicole Kidman. I may convince myself to go back at some point. I enjoyed this review more than that episode💖💯
Lol thank you. I do recommended checking out episode 5. From what I can remember there isn’t a lot of context needed from the previous episodes to get into the story
Working with a new mic, please forgive any audio issues. What were your thoughts on The Expatriates/Expats?
watched the drama, and ordered the book but not received it yet. I actually loved the drama. My husband ( Afro American) worked at US Embassy of a developing country for 2 years, and I went there with him and 2 small children. How drama portraits the expats' lives are very accurate in details. Luxury condos, Philippina nannies and maids, dinner parties, spoiled children by nannies, local exteremely wealthy wives from old money, lots of struggling middle class people, etc. The expats lives in a bubble separated from outside. Life is unfair and wealth is divided extremely unequally in most of developing countries. It's very hard to relate or understand each other beyond these walls. I think this drama portraits so many characters from different classes nationalities and backgrounds in order to show us no matter how different each situations are, life is a struggle and we all have problems. And we all have to find something positive within us to continue to live.
It does sound like literary fiction, it's the best genre for reading about drama between messy people being a mess. I've been living my lit fic moment too
I’m really enjoying the mess
Idk for sure cuz I haven’t seen the show, but from what you described it still sounds like the show is about motherhood. One of the ladies was deciding she DIDN’T want to be a mother which is a big part of motherhood. You have to be real with yourself and decide if you would be fit to be a mother. The other young lady was becoming a mother and the third was dealing with the loss of her child. To me, it seems very much so still centered around motherhood and the different experiences and choices women make around it. They just took a different route and decided to add more variety by including someone who decided not to be a mother highlighting that being a mother shouldn’t be taken lightly and the decision to become one should be well thought out and taken seriously. That’s my pov from your description of it at least.
Absolutely, I didn’t mean to imply it wasn’t there at all but the book pressed a little harder than the show did especially when it came to other relationships between characters.
Don’t listen to those people! As someone who loves reading books of adaptions, I love your channel concept.
Thank you! I try to ignore them because I know I’m not alone.
@@CirrenaMarie Don’t worry, Poor Things is a hot topic right now bcos of its Oscar. The hate comments will go down in a few weeks when the hype fades away. I also hated Poor Things and some people are VERY reactive to seeing a negative review (which points out how creepy it is!).
Haven't read the book and watched I think most of one episode. It didn't hold my interest because I wasn't feeling Nicole Kidman. I may convince myself to go back at some point. I enjoyed this review more than that episode💖💯
Lol thank you. I do recommended checking out episode 5. From what I can remember there isn’t a lot of context needed from the previous episodes to get into the story
The book sounds really good the show not so much