Season 1 – The Woods

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Amy R @RT66100668 Sep 9 Maybe it is good in the end but halfway through first episode, it was painful to keep watching. We did, though, because it's based on a Harlan Coban novel and all the others we've seen have been great! And we made it to the end. Next day when we went to exercise, we decided we needed a new show. So as far as I'm concerned, it was so slow and nothing made us want to find out what happened... See more Lynn Y @LynnhhY 01/26/2024 This was great. I had a theory - I was wrong! I live near woods and was dreaming about it! Really good, worth more than a paltry 59%! See more Anita F @RT48915707 02/18/2023 This was a great book set in NJ. The lead Polish actors were great. The Netflix series being set in Poland doesn't matter. It could be anywhere. However, the dubbing from Polish to English in the series is awful. The English speaking translations were awful and expressionless and very distracting. See more 04/26/2022 I was wondering why it was placed in Poland. It could have happened anywhere. Poland has great people who have made great sacrifices for others during the war. The antisemitic thread was not needed. The director in the movie had a group of kids under his care - two of them died and two others disappear. The problem is he did not do his job. Everything else was not needed. The acting was great; a great group of polish actors. The operator is superb. Truth is after a while all Coban's stories are all the same - I guess it pays the bills. It kept me on my treadmill Ewas Skibinka's lip job went totally wrong See more Paul H @RT89732555 01/23/2022 Can't understand some of the low audience scores, this a classy well filmed, acted murder mystery. This is probably the first Polish series I've seen and going by this quality not the last! We loved it. Thanks See more susan j @CallMeLulu 11/07/2020 Unfortunately, The Woods is a bore and a chore. I don't mind slowpacing but this is excruciating. Watched 1 & 1/2 episodes. Those 90 minutes were endless and seemed at least 4 hours long. The narrative isn't compelling, the story is hazy and ill=defined, the characters uninteresting and odd (not in a good way). Part of the problem is it's dubbed into English from Polish. Even if you're looking at your phone your laptop while it's on, you can still hear it's dubbed due because the audio has a weird, contrived, tinny, non-spontaneous quality of actors recording lines into a mic, in a studio overdubbing some other actors' lines. Maybe because it's based in another country/culture, it's hard to know whether all or some of the awkwardness is due to cultural differences or-whether the writing and acting is awkward and not particularly good. Example: macho teenaged boys singing Polish nursery rhymes or folk songs(?) while taking off their shirts and jumping on furniture. Ultimately, it doesn't really matter. For me, The Woods was suffocating. See more Read all reviews

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