I watched four episodes out of eight. I quit. Reason? Humor is very local. The summary of “twenty-five-year-old grandfather” is certainly intriguing. A young man, in the early 60s, during a snowstorm, fell off a cliff, but in 2010 he was found in a piece of ice and, miraculously, was alive. But the world has changed, his wife has died, and his son has passed fifty. And now, our hero has to adapt to all this.
Not really.
That's what I've been waiting for, and that's why I'm attracted to stories like this -- the opportunity to look at the world as if it were the first time. However, when the hero without delays and digressions, for a couple of minutes, masters a sophisticated digital camera, it becomes clear that “Grandpa” is not at all about that. This is a story on the age-old theme of fathers and children, revealing the theme of the gulf between generations, through changes in the Japanese perception of the family. Simply put, a linguistic sitcom. Most of the jokes are based on the intricacies of Japanese speech etiquette, patriarchal morality and the samurai concept of honor, which his grandfather, who had lain in the ice for half a century, brought to the modern world. And it's not that these are some very complicated jokes, but I don't feel the historical context, I don't hear wordplay, and nostalgia doesn't wrap me in a sweet veil. I feel gray. The Japanese are probably fine.
Unfortunately, there's nothing more to catch on to. Characters do not cause special sympathy, due to their caricature, template. Even my grandson, who has Suzuran behind him, did not bring me to the end, which means everything is completely bad.
A thing for your own.
3 out of 10