But this hefty New York Times bestseller was brought to life as a trilingual series last year, on Amazon. I don’t need to sell you on the storyline here, which weaves together four generations of a Korean-Japanese family from the turn of the 20th century through the 1980s. Watch now: Free with Netflix subscription, Betsy Blumenthal, editor, features and franchises
Ultimately, Unorthodox is the best kind of show-it opens up viewers’ worlds in more ways than one. For an Ashkenazi Jew like me, though, the show also offers an incredible moment of representation: about half the dialogue is in Yiddish, which my grandparents spoke fluently and I heard often growing up, a language hardly ever represented in popular culture and with which most people are probably unfamiliar. Viewers will also get a glimpse of scenic Wannsee Lake, on the southwestern outskirts of the city, where Berliners cool off come summer. The show takes place mostly in the German capital, casting a wide gaze over the city’s magnificent buildings and broad boulevards, in neighborhoods like Kreuzberg and Charlottenburg.
This Netflix limited series, starring Israeli actress Shira Haas, tells the story of a young married woman who flees to Berlin to escape life inside Williamsburg’s strict Satmar community.
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