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2023usernameNew · 2023-09-07T21:36:39+00:00

Anyone else watching this? I think it just came out. I highly recommend it. it’s a German show that stars with a premise very similar to the movie Room. the woman escapes (not a spoiler, it happens in the beginning) and the police have to find out who she is and if it’s linked to a disappearance 13 years before. The shows follows the investigation and flashbacks to the life inside the house. I’m on episode 3 and it’s so gripping, will definitely finish it tomorrow.

mikado1 · 30/09/2023 15:23

VivaDixie · 30/09/2023 15:20

I also didnt trust the grandfather due to the picture under her bed - however another PP has answered that for me as Original Lena was an artist - she must have drawn these pics under the bed

I also wonder whether Jonathan was Original Lena's son - he could have been born to one of the other Lenas as there were so many. I did wonder about this actually, we are led to believe that Lena gave birth to Sarah at Christmastime (the kids were sitting outside the bedroom when she and the baby were dying). then Jasmine came to them in the April (5 months before September). There cant have been many Lenas arriving and dying in the space of 4 months max

Unless it was an earlier Christmas - but the kids looked a similar age and that still isnt enough time for all the Lenas to go missing (there were about 15-20 photos on the wall in the Police Station)

The DNA showed Lena was the mother of both. Hannah was 12 and Jonathan (which I now pronounce in German! 😆) was only 8.

VivaDixie · 30/09/2023 15:29

mikado1 · 30/09/2023 15:23

The DNA showed Lena was the mother of both. Hannah was 12 and Jonathan (which I now pronounce in German! 😆) was only 8.

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Ah thank you - I couldnt remember what the first DNA test was

MoiraRosesBaybay · 01/10/2023 14:32

I really enjoyed it.
Jasmine had been so conditioned and bound by the rules during her time there that she sort of wanted to go back.
Hannah didn’t know any different. This had been her entire life. I found it interesting that she seemed to be pulling the strings.
I thought that the grandfather rejected the boy as he was the result of rape, unlike Hannah.

Canyoucheckonme · 01/10/2023 23:43

DH and I really enjoyed it. Great acting from most of the cast, kept us guessing until the end (we were convinced during ep5 that Detective Gerd/Spider from Corrie was involved somehow) and no massive plot holes.

Also always appreciate it when film makers these days don't include rape scenes, just imply them. We've come a long way this past decade (I hope).

MNetcurtains · 02/10/2023 06:09

VivaDixie · 30/09/2023 15:20

I also didnt trust the grandfather due to the picture under her bed - however another PP has answered that for me as Original Lena was an artist - she must have drawn these pics under the bed

I also wonder whether Jonathan was Original Lena's son - he could have been born to one of the other Lenas as there were so many. I did wonder about this actually, we are led to believe that Lena gave birth to Sarah at Christmastime (the kids were sitting outside the bedroom when she and the baby were dying). then Jasmine came to them in the April (5 months before September). There cant have been many Lenas arriving and dying in the space of 4 months max

Unless it was an earlier Christmas - but the kids looked a similar age and that still isnt enough time for all the Lenas to go missing (there were about 15-20 photos on the wall in the Police Station)

They confirmed that both children were Lena's, but with different fathers.

Edit: Sorry, didn't notice this had been addressed by a PP.

mikado1 · 02/10/2023 06:44

MoiraRosesBaybay · 01/10/2023 14:32

I really enjoyed it.
Jasmine had been so conditioned and bound by the rules during her time there that she sort of wanted to go back.
Hannah didn’t know any different. This had been her entire life. I found it interesting that she seemed to be pulling the strings.
I thought that the grandfather rejected the boy as he was the result of rape, unlike Hannah.

He didn't know that until close to the end. It was because she was so like Lena i think.

VivaDixie · 02/10/2023 10:09

MoiraRosesBaybay · 01/10/2023 14:32

I really enjoyed it.
Jasmine had been so conditioned and bound by the rules during her time there that she sort of wanted to go back.
Hannah didn’t know any different. This had been her entire life. I found it interesting that she seemed to be pulling the strings.
I thought that the grandfather rejected the boy as he was the result of rape, unlike Hannah.

My interpretation was slightly different - I don't think Jasmine had Stockholm syndrome - I thought that at first when she dyed her hair back to blonde - however it became clear that it was a process in order to get to him to kill him (she hid the knife under her sleeve and the shard of glass in her sanitary towel). So at first we are led to believe that she 'missed' the life but in reality she had a cunning plan.

Canyoucheckonme · 02/10/2023 11:12

Yes, totally agree @VivaDixie The minute she had the food delivery with those energy bars in, she knew that her captor/abuser knew where she was. She was very intelligent (remember the scene where she was going for a job interview) and knew there would be cameras all over the apartment. Hence her turning the bathroom light off when hiding the shard of glass in the sanitary towel so he couldn't see, but deliberately showing him her hiding a knife up her sleeve. The latter was a decoy/red herring as she knew there'd be a battle. So she planned the whole thing, which I loved!

I also much prefer this type of series to have lots of questions at the end. Gets me thinking and using my imagination, rather than neatly tying up all the loose ends.

What was the point of us knowing Det Gerd had slept with Lena's mum tho? To prove he'd gotten WAY too close to the family to objectively investigate it?

I know it's fiction, but when Aida came home to bed one night in that scene and there was a tiny baby there (as well as a small child) and she completely ignored him/her, I did tut and say "attachment and bonding issues right there!" 😂

VivaDixie · 02/10/2023 11:18

@Canyoucheckonme yes I observed this about the baby too - I was shouting <in my head!> 'Just pick up the baby and give her/him a cuddle FFS!'

Also the creepy security guard - I might have missed it but they were leading us to suspect him early on - like when he pulled up at the crash scene pretending to not know what was going on, then stopping them from getting into the military base- but then the line of questioning about his 2 hour window where he was unaccounted for - was that ever resolved?

MoiraRosesBaybay · 02/10/2023 12:46

VivaDixie · 02/10/2023 10:09

My interpretation was slightly different - I don't think Jasmine had Stockholm syndrome - I thought that at first when she dyed her hair back to blonde - however it became clear that it was a process in order to get to him to kill him (she hid the knife under her sleeve and the shard of glass in her sanitary towel). So at first we are led to believe that she 'missed' the life but in reality she had a cunning plan.

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Ah very true. It was a way to get to him.

aroomwithaperfectview · 09/11/2023 15:23

Jasperdale · 17/09/2023 21:28

really enjoyed this. The little girl was creepy and I got the impression she made papa kill the other woman when they didn’t measure up to original Lena. She said she wanted to keep this one as she told good stories. Can’t see any other reason why he killed the previous Lena’s? The main detective guy looked like the man from Cloudy with a chance of meatballs!

This is exactly my impression too.

aroomwithaperfectview · 09/11/2023 15:26

16HamstersCalledThemAllDave · 20/09/2023 20:33

I'd like to know this too! Seeing as that poor Polizei guy lost half a leg.

Also - was Hannah supposed good or bad? She seemed to hep Jasmin kill 'Papa' so they could eventually be free, but she also killed the poor innocent guy in the car.

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The mines were probably not there yet before Jasmin escaped.

aroomwithaperfectview · 09/11/2023 15:31

VivaDixie · 02/10/2023 10:09

My interpretation was slightly different - I don't think Jasmine had Stockholm syndrome - I thought that at first when she dyed her hair back to blonde - however it became clear that it was a process in order to get to him to kill him (she hid the knife under her sleeve and the shard of glass in her sanitary towel). So at first we are led to believe that she 'missed' the life but in reality she had a cunning plan.

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Exactly, Jasmin had a plan all long.

haveyougotamin · 21/01/2024 12:20

I read the book first which was great. On ep4!

duc748 · 04/02/2024 22:17

I only started this recently, encouraged by good things I'd read (and the first few posts of this thread, so obviously, I've jumped to the end without reading more. My first thought was, Jeez, this is a tough watch. The intensity of it reminded me a bit of the shock of The Killing first season. And the amazing child acting reminded me of Dark, too. Also, it reminded me of the Fritzl case, and I just read the wiki page of it. There's a lot of stuff there that I didn't know. I'm on ep #4, so I'll stick with it.

duc748 · 05/02/2024 02:03

Finished it now. The pill-head cop is such a cliché, the story could have lost that without any problems, I thought. Great acting, but I thought it ended with a bit of a whimper.