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      Dear Child (2023)

      Limited Series

      Dear Child

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      Episodes

      • 1. Hannah

        Air date: Sep 7, 2023

        After a woman is hit by a car and hospitalized, authorities try to make sense of puzzling information from the young girl who was with her.

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      • 2. Grandfather

        Air date: Sep 7, 2023

        Gerd meets the mysterious patient; Hannah moves to a new home; Aida's investigation of the accident site leads to a breakthrough.

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      • 3. The House

        Air date: Sep 7, 2023

        A search yields disturbing discoveries, while Gerd begins to realize that the full truth of Lena Beck's disappearance is darker than anyone imagined.

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      • 4. Rules

        Air date: Sep 7, 2023

        Gruesome new evidence from the forest surrounding the military site changes the scope of the investigation; Jasmin fights to regain her independence.

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      • 5. Gifts

        Air date: Sep 7, 2023

        Jasmin realizes she's not alone; Gerd follows a hunch about Hannah, while Matthias forges ahead with a plan to bring her home; Aida pursues a lead.

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      • 6. For Lena

        Air date: Sep 7, 2023

        As the pieces of a grim puzzle finally click into place, Gerd and Aida race to prevent history from repeating itself; Hannah makes a special request.

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      Cast & Crew

      Kim Riedle
      Naila Schuberth
      Sammy Schrein
      Hans Löw
      Haley Louise Jones
      Justus von Dohnányi
      Julika Jenkins
      Friederich Oetker
      Tom Spiess

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      • Nov 27, 2023

        'Dear Child', which recently dropped onto Netflix, is based on the German novel of the same name. SYNOPSIS: 'A mysterious woman's escape from her harrowing captivity points investigators toward the dark truth behind an unsolved disappearance 13 years earlier.' Overall there's nothing new here with the story using elements reminiscent of other material like 'Gone Girl' and others. However, this is an exceptional piece of TV. It's unexpected twists make this series an engrossing experience with a real sense of menace and suspense throughout. 'Dear Child' is like watching a complicated puzzle that slowly completes and answers itself in front of you right up to its finale. That finale is a bit underwhelming considering what has gone on before, but perfection is hard to create. An intense psychology thriller! 8/10

      • Nov 26, 2023

        With all due respect to the creators (and partly because of the atrocious dubbing), while the premise is excellent, everything else is just terrible: the writing is awful, the characters are idiotic and their behaviour is full of the cheapest and the most absurd cliches you’ve seen in B-movies and the dialogue is just absurd. The whole things is too long because it’s just BADLY written. Don’t waste your time.

      • Nov 19, 2023

        Thoroughly engaging, suspenseful and thrilling, this is a beautifully crafted, bingeworthy story. By the end of the first episode you are hooked! It has you asking questions from start to finish, and not all of them are answered. There are some moments that make the eyes roll, but you forget them by the next scene. The protagonists' background and psychological state should have been explored a lot more, as they would have made the story end more completely than it does.

      • Nov 15, 2023

        Absolutely first rate across the board. Killer suspense, great acting and characters, not a moment wasted, and deeply touching at the end. Virtually perfect. I lost sleep while watching and I'm sure I will after because I'll be thinking about it. There are worse forms of insomnia.

      • Nov 12, 2023

        pretty interesting, cool story with some twists

      • Oct 22, 2023

        Great story line and actors feels addicted to watch to the end

      • Oct 21, 2023

        i really like this series, the story, the acting its all good with twists and suspense i highly recommend to people who like mystery suspense genre

      • Oct 20, 2023

        Thanks to the great actors I was on the edge of my seat bingeing this film. Well done all around!

      • Oct 16, 2023

        Overall, a good, entertaining watch and (if you don't know the novel) some really good and unexpected twists and turns. The actors did a great job, all around. Kim Riedle in the role of Jasmin Grass stood out to me for how well she portrayed the trauma, pain, confusion, and anxiety of her role. I also appreciated the authentic and natural-looking actors chosen for all of the roles. Cons: The way this show interacts with its source material feels somewhat hit-and-miss at times. For contexts, I enjoyed the original novel very much, in particular its constant twists and turns. The show starts off almost indistinguishable from the plot of the novel. At least the first episode is very close to the novel - which sometimes feels a bit awkward due to the very nature of the different mediums. Many choices, conflicts, dialogues, and thought-processes of the characters that make sense in the novel are either altered or shortened, which makes the characters at times appear somewhat ...less intelligent and rather impulsive. As soon as the second episode, the plot moves in an entirely different direction - which is something I don't necessarily take an issue with, because that way, the people who read the book also get to experience a new twist on the story. And (I'm not going to spoil), the original resolution might not be as interesting on screen as the direction they went into). So my issue really isn't that it's different from the novel - I actually think that was the correct choice. My bigger issue is that...at times the changes that were made cannot really live up to the original and sometimes feel a little forced and convoluted or linger on aspects that don't really contribute to the overall plot (e.g. the mine-scene and involving a NATO military base and what not...this just seemed really random.) The whodunnit mystery of the novel is resolved very efficiently and very elegantly - it explains everything with very little effort. This is not so much true for the resolution of the show which...seems a lot more elaborate and forced and with fewer breadcrumbs leading us there. It also loses a lot of its message: (getting dangerously close to spoilers) - the original solution made a point about how the public and the media engage with crime and how we talk about victims (which also plays a role in some of the minor plots concerning singular characters, most of which were also shortened). The tv-show does incorporate many of the elements like the behaviour of the journalists sieging the house of Matthias and his wife etc. - but there isn't a similarly interesting resolution to any of this as there was in the novel. Something I appreciated that was left out was the 'Hannah has Aspergers' plotline of the novel which I didn't really think added much to the story or her character, especially since she has this "eerie child" role. What the show does really well is portray moments of horror and despair and build tension. Sometimes I feel like it struggles a little bit in portraying levity - especially the final scenes are rather cliche-ridden. A personal modest suggestion from me as a German-speaker: I listened in on the English voice-over and even if you don't speak German, I would personally recommend the original voices and subtitles. I think it would significantly improve the experience watching this show.

      • Oct 12, 2023

        A bit slow at first and the dubbed-in english was annoying, but it got better as it went along. Strange and interesting story.

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