Aarcflick

Families Like Ours is a drama, directed and co-written by Oscar-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, that poses the question: what would you do if your luck ran out? The kind that would lead you to be born with a healthy body, or in a privileged, developed country, or with a skin color that didn't invite discrimination. Perhaps even all of the above. What if life as you knew it—stable, easy, reliable, and comfortable—were turned upside down? What would happen then? The seven-part series is set in Denmark in the near future, where the Dutch economy has recently collapsed, flooding the Netherlands' neighboring countries with job-seeking immigrants, consuming capacity and goodwill. Thus, there is little left of either option when the government announces that the threat posed by global warming and rising sea levels to Denmark is the total evacuation of its six million inhabitants. The country is, in effect, being shut down. Stars: Amaryllis April Maltha August, Albert Rudbec...