Rita
Rita
TV-14 | 09 February 2012 (USA)
SEASON & EPISODES
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  • Reviews
    Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget
    Cleveronix A different way of telling a story
    Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
    Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
    jmccrmck-65172 I would affirm the other positive reviews here and reiterate #1 how enjoyable the show is and #2 how unlike it is to your typical American fare Television. If you gravitate to foreign films the you should probably give this a go. Season #1, episode #7 " The Princess " is allegory for Rita's own troubled youth and life which has'nt been dealt with directly in the series up to that point. I myself didn't get it until my partner clued me in. A very subtle story line and literary device, like a good movie, which you're not likely to find very many places on TV. I recommend it and feel grateful Netflix puts these "foreign" TV shows on its network.
    agkona At first, I couldn't figure out who the target audience was. But I love where it has gone. Rita, Hjordis, the various principals, her lovers. So interesting. I did have a hard time with her incessant smoking, but I understand it's part of her character and Europe. I think season 4 has been the best and I was truly shocked by Episode Family, but I figured it was going there. Loved the Dragonborn song at the end of that episode. Rita reminds me of me a little when I was in high school and I turned out ok. Hope there is a Season 5. I was intrigued by her throwing her flannel shirt in the box and shown disposing of the box. Will Rita turn a new leaf?
    Jan Vervloet I think we all can think about this one anarchist teacher we once had, at least I can. This series follows Rita a teacher who doesn't follow the rules and who's live is slowly falling further apart because of her behavior. Apart from family troubles she gets caught in quite a few affairs, oh the drama, which pretty much gives her the tittle of home wrecker.The series does draw you in when you watch it, the awkward scenes tend to be cringe- worthy but none the less it's all very thought out.The lead actress does a fabulous job, the other actors are quite on point as well and portray interesting characters that you just want to get to know inside out.Overall it's pretty great.
    rbruhn-1 Probably the thing I like most about this series, and the thing which attracted me to it in the first place, is the contrast it provides between it and anything that might appear on American TV. This show could NEVER appear on American TV, unless on one of the subscription channels like HBO, because it has such a casual and accepting attitude towards sex and sexuality and towards "profanity." These things don't bother me in the least, but I'm hardly the norm in America. If this series is any indication, then clearly the Danes, like other Europeans, are much more grown up in their attitudes towards sex and language. Not that that should surprise anyone.That being said, I'm right on the cusp of giving up on this series. (I've watched 6 episodes.) This is another of those productions which is plot-driven to the detriment of character development. What I mean by that is that the writers, in order to move things along, cause the characters to be simply carried along by the necessities of the plot without regard to whether their characters ever would (or could), in a million years, actually act like that. Zebras, it is rightly said, cannot change their stripes, but in this series people change their personalities quicker than you can change your pants.Bottom line, I think, is just that the series is poorly written, and as a result the characters swim around in a plot-driven sea tide which carries them around willy-nilly, without any volition or logic on their part.On the plus side, Mille Dinesen has a beautiful butt, and the camera unabashedly lingers on it. I wish that were enough to keep me watching, but I'm afraid it's not.