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I hope it doesn't lead to them trying to make American shows that are ostensibly set in the Nordic countries but don't feel at all like it. It's already happened to the UK.

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Interesting. Here's a related phenomenon: currently Spanish-speaking Netflix is flooded with a batch of Spanish-made comedies, romances, dramas and thrillers -- the most high-profile of which is The Money Heist ("La Casa de Papel") -- most of which have a distinctly Hollywood/generic feel to them. Every character and situation is a cliché from Hollywood, with no local flavor. Save for the accents of some of the actors, there's no Spanish feel to these shows. Even the credits soundtrack is in English.

I wonder if the netflixization of shows will tend to erradicate local flavor forever, and if so -- what's even the point of watching them? I don't want to watch yet another heist movie or prison drama, only with Spanish actors instead of American ones.

What about Paquita Salas! That show is brilliant and has Spain coming out of every orifice. So much so that I don't even bother recommending it to English speakers because they won't get so many of the references

I certainly tire of too many Hollywood productions supposedly located in Europe or Asia but with obvious California landscapes.

The specific example I was thinking of is some Netflix series (might be Sex Education?) that is ostensibly set in a school in England and has English actors, but is written like it was set in a US school, full of details that are completely out of place. I'll admit I haven't watched it though, I just saw someone criticising it.

That was a deliberate choice by the creators.

>”It’s definitely set in Britain, but we’ve made a very conscious choice to have that American, throw-back nostalgia, John Hughes feel to it.”

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2019-05-17/sex-edu...

Well that's stupid. If I wanted American throw-back nostalgia, I'd watch Saved by the Bell, the Wonder Years, or something set there.

I think a real problem is that English schools are boring in the TV/movie sense.. and full of exams.

Indeed it's sex education. You get jocks and nerds, school lockers, the school canteen, all that, which is very american. It does irritate me a lot, but I have to say it's a really good show otherwise.

Well, here's the inverse, this is filmed in NY, live even, but it feels 100% authentic British:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Ve4UP_ELM

The Branagh version of Wallander killed me with this. They somehow reduced it to a BBC cop show that just happened to have a bit of swedish set decoration. Conversely the american version of Low Winter Sun was at least an actual adaptation.

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