Truly Dreadful Film

Good concept, poorly executed.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

In 1898, three women prisoners of a misogynistic and racist society struggle with family and relationship. The miniseries culminate with a trip to Egypt where the women discover the sun, the picturesque scenery and themselves.