In a not-too-distant future, Denmark faces total evacuation due to rising water levels. As the nation prepares to leave their homes, high school student Laura must choose between her divorced parents and the boy she's fallen in love with.
‘Families Like Ours’ Review: Emptying Denmark. In Thomas Vinterberg’s series on Netflix, climate change forces a country to close, and everyone has to leave.“Families Like Ours” ends with a wedding, the way a proper romantic melodrama should. But for the central characters there are no resolutions, just new circumstances, which they may or may not be able to accept as fresh starts. Vinterberg offers neither doom nor easy optimism; he just shows us a few of the six million stories in the closing country.
Families Like Ours has a similar intense family drama vibe as This Is Us , with touches of apocalyptic shows like The Last Of Us. Our Take: It’s not too harsh to say that the first episode of Families Like Ours is exceedingly depressing to watch. The situation that it’s setting up is that the nation of Denmark is going to be pragmatic about its future in the face of climate change and completely shut down the country.Taylor Sheridan's TV Show Lineup: 'Landman' Season 3, 'Marshals', 'The Madison', And More.
