Stream It Or Skip It: 'Families Like Ours' on Netflix, a drama where...

Review: Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘Families Like Ours,’ on Netflix

The mini-series “Families Like Ours” on Netflix has an attention-grabbing premise: An entire country, Denmark, decides to shut itself down before climate change can do the job for it. Six million Danes start looking for new homes. Relocation plans are drawn up with Scandinavian efficiency, but European neighbors look upon waves of relatively well-off white refugees with the same distaste they show for Africans and Middle Easterners. The seven-ep…

Families Like Ours Review: A Successful Balance of Realism

Families Like Ours (Familier som vores) is a Danish drama directed by Thomas Vinterberg and written by Bo Hr. Hansen and Thomas Vinterberg. In the series, the people of Denmark wake up one day to learn that their country is shutting down, and the world will never be the same. Rising waters will soon render the nation unlivable, forcing the mass relocation of its entire population. But what does someone do with nearly six million people who will …

Stream It Or Skip It: 'Families Like Ours' on Netflix, a drama where...

The entirely plausible climate change-related circumstances of the country's shutdown got us depressed, but the family drama that results was compelling.