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Its an interesting series and not at all what we anticipated when we first started viewing. We thought it was going to be a adult medical drama, and it is with some very keen, realistic medical drama but its actually a "fish out of water" storyline of a young doctor exiled to the local primary school due to a social misunderstanding in a medical situation while an intern at the local hospital. Made comic by the fact he possesses no interpersonal skills whatsoever even with adults, let alone children.

It is difficult to determine who the show is targeted at. I think many adults will find the main setting and focus of the drama being a primary school (Gr 1-6) a bit tedious at times. The acting is good and in fact the child actors are superb and phenomenally convincing in their roles. But we could not see young people watching this series on their own: too adult for children and too juvenile for teens. We landed on it by happenstance & misunderstanding of its focal point but that's not really the way to market a series!

All through the series we were afraid the writers would go the dreaded route of putting the 2 main characters into a "relationship" and thankfully that was never touched.

Is it worth watching? Yes, and it has good entertainment value as well as interesting medical drama. You will need to be in the mood for a different flavor of serial drama and have an open mind but we enjoyed it.

Our family just watched and enjoyed this lighthearted movie. Don't recall a snowman coming to life movie before but they made this one work, if a bit corny at points. We came to IMDB to confirm the cast as we thought one of the characters looked familiar and sure enough it was Lauren Holly who has a great turn as a salacious resident who is quite "wowed" by our friendly snowman character.

For us the IMDB rating we found when we visited of 5.3 seemed a tad on the low side - has the grinch stolen the Christmas spirit in 2024 among movie viewers? The movie is really about to 7.5 but we rated an 8 as it seemed fair to offset some of the grinch spirit.

This is a very fine police drama from Poland, and it reminds me greatly of the Icelandic police drama series Trapped and Entrapped which also were extremely successful for Netflix. No pretty people, bleak surroundings, people who have problems in relationships due to their circumstances and cops who know how bad the gutter is because they are only a few steps removed from it themselves.

The current IMDB rating as I write this for the film is 6.3. That is a travesty. It may be that the writers gave away a bit to much to early, but it still was a riveting movie that one will watch to a suspenseful conclusion. Sure it is not some super sci-fi blockbuster but overall it is well done film making.

I know the setting for the movie is supposed to be in the past, I am guessing the early 2000's, but I sure hope Poland today is not as bleak as what we view in the movie.