It's because of the song in the opening titles (which are as obnoxious as the rest of the series): the showrunner said it partially inspired the story.

I don't think it's misery porn at all, but I will say it's pretty relentless.
There are moments of levity, and it doesn't feel like a burden because it's good storytelling with great performances, but it's not necessarily "fun".

Modena is not a village (nor that small a town), no one would care about Francesca and her love life.

I believe it was customary to study Russian at school in the ex-Jugoslavia.

Pretty boring. Tuscany is beautiful, though.

Well, there you go ;)

And it's the same for the Italian version: there's none of the charm of the British edition, and the contestants are awful: non particularly good at baking, they swear a lot on camera, are too focused on winning and beating the others. In the first or second edition there was a woman who had a fit because her éclairs…

The channel it's on matters. The show was pretty successfull on BBC2, but it was when it moved to BBC1 that became such a smash.

I'm a huge fan of Austen and Wharton and I read Middlemarch back in September and loved it. I'll also watch pretty much every period drama out there. But this is just bad, terrible even. I watched it when it aired in the UK and there's just nothing to it, in terms of depth, it's just a bunch of random things happening…

I cried when I saw Will. I hated the narrative choice too but dammit, I cried, even though it wasn't the real Will. This finale was pretty terrible, and I'm happy that I was already emotionally checked out (that happens when they brutally kill your favourite character out of nowhere and then the showrunners feel the…

I assumed it was the 30s, specifically, with the terror and the purges.

Yes.

What a complete waste of O'Neil.

Agreed, and The Line was probably the best episode of the season overall.

This season of The Good Wife was awful, and Alan Cumming and Christine Baranski had absolutely nothing to do, but I like to imagine the voters noticed the backlash for the Kalicia situation and decided to give nominations to two people they like and know are not assholes like Margulies probably is.

I really liked this, although I would've liked to see more of life in East Germany before moving Martin to the West.
I've been learning German on my on for a while and, after having seen what seems like every German movie made in the last fifteen years, I'm really glad to have this.
I love Ulrich Noethen and I hope he…

It's funny that he's called Metzger, which means butcher in German.

For me too. I was pretty much crying my eyes out during that sequence, and this episode is when I went from "this is kinda cool" to "I really really like this, maybe even love it".

Freier Fall is such a good movie! Apparently they want to do a sequel which is a terrible idea.

Well, I honestly could not understand a word she was saying except for "due bottiglie" and "per favore", but yeah, I don't think you'd ask for tartufi like that, it'a too general and no one goes to a store asking for something without saying how much, in grams, or at least how many.