Oriental fairy tales, why do you make eyes for me? All Russian melodramas have 3 main directions: about provincials, pro gypsies and about the East. What to do, this is all the housewives in demand, it is fashionable now. Everyone looks and admires. That is, not all, but those who do not need the intellectual-semantic part of the film at all. But they are still the vast majority.
"The Taste of Pomegranate" chose the direction of the East. Of course, the imagination can be deployed anywhere you want: from the dances of half-naked dark girls to drooling dialogues and escapes from the harem. It seems that the creators of this series decided to cram everything and at once.
So, what we see: like the USSR, beautiful landscapes, handsome actors with stone faces (it is worth noting that the faces are very beautiful, but this is the only plus), semi-erotic dances, screams, scandals, slaps, intricacies of love intrigues on the verge of fiction. As a result of the series with the fifth, it is already unclear who has whom and who is dating whom. The actors are annoying, they just play in no way, they only get good at squealing and kissing. And although the action seems to be taking place in the Soviet Union, I would not have understood it if I had not specifically said it. It's very modern. And “provincial, orphanage, modest girl” sometimes behaves like a lady on the panel.
I did not watch the series until the end, it just became uninteresting, although initially I expected that I would be given something quite acceptable. Not even in terms of the plot (absurd, a natural absurdity!), but for some reason the actors were all very praised, as for me - absolutely in vain. I didn’t believe that these people studied somewhere, it feels like they picked someone up from the street and shoved them into the frame, not allowing them to read the script.
"The taste of pomegranate" deserves only
2 from 10
For the beautiful views of nature and pretty faces of actors. But in general, the series is just a beautiful wrapper from bitter candy.