nerve wrecking

Many of the German Pilcher productions are based upon Pilcher's short stories

I really hope that it is the fault of the screenwriters who change all of her short stories into boring , one dimensional TV productions. With only a few exceptions the audience can expect the difference between city people and country people, people who regret having left their country home for city jobs or for lovers who live in the city.

the audience can also expect the difference between rich people who have a good heart and bad rich people who have a totally capitalistic way of thinking.

the audience can also expect a constant view of finest interior designs , most expensive cars, most expensive clothing, housemaids, cooks and butlers and oceanfront estates which are always settled in the middle of blooming rose gardens who need dozens of gardeners to take care of them. Not once have I seen a tv production showing every day life including neglectance, poverty or uglyness.

the characters are superficial, one dimensional. Everything is predictable, you mostly find two kinds of "characters": money-driven people gathering their richness in the rushing cities by serving people
( lawyers, real estate agents
etc). On the other hand there are country people working in their narural and cultural environment, embedded in honourable traditional
values.

so you can tell right from the start who is going to fall in love with who and who is going to leave his/her previous partner and live in the country. It is always the same strategy to make future partners run into each other by accident in the summertime. So everything is set well in the German Pilcher TV production and no cloud covers the shining sun in the everlasting summer.