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Short season with something happening each episode, this is the first out of a series of attempts on several Italian originals on Netflix and stands out. Great cinematography, just as impactful in English and Italian and that climatic season finale was a great pay off.

I sincerely was positively surprised by this show, all due to the conclusion. The only thing that bothered me was the choice of the soundtrack, except for the opening and closing music, many of the other melodies did not harmonize with the scenes and destabilized the moment. An interesting experience and decent plots.

This has a lot of promise still and I hope to see it grow further. The pace and focus of the story could use help sometimes. It didn't pick up proper and consistent until the last episode.

I am not sure how I feel about this series yet. So far I'm not a fan. For several reasons: 1. Italian actors that seem trained in theater and not film acting is a shame. There are insanely talented actors in Italy to have chosen this particular groups actors. 2. Music that was composed for this is very restricted in vision and therefore doesn't make any sense when watching. The emotions it tries to generate are not matched with what is happening at all. Instead of generating suspense or hope or mystery it's sooo melodic and peppy it takes away from the point of the scene. 3. Some music has lyrics in English which throw me off as I am watching in original language set several centuries ago, yet I have to hear upbeat music from the 21st century. Who thought this was a good idea? Seriously though! 4. Story so far is kind of dull. Some female is accused of witchcraft, but some educated male who believes in science and not ignorant ideas may save the day. Not interesting enough of a story. It could just be the slowness of it. The lack of interesting character building and transitions from scene to scene. I see there are reviews saying how did this get bad rating...and I ask...how did this get good rating?

Do any of the writers actually know how to tell a story and keep it consistent? This had such promise, but it is all over the place and back and forth and back again. Whaaaat? I can't even figure out what to point out. Beautiful costumes, great settings... but it feels like there was no real consistencies, nothing made sense. Perhaps they were trying to work on surprising people, which, it was surpising at times, but so hodge podge it made it ridiculous.

If witchcraft is your thing, you might want to check out Luna Nera. It's not perfect, but it has a lot going for it as well. The athmosphere is authentic, you can relate to the characters and obviously italian is a beautiful language to listen to. Main points of criticism for me were sound and sound editing and the fact that it's an open ending. Some of the writing could be better as wel, but all in all I enjoyed watching this show.

Ok, so, first of all I have to specify that my mother tongue is Italian, so I had the pleasure to watch the TV serie in Italian. I don't want to complain about the acting: more experienced actresses made the lines and the overall plot work, even if they were quite surreal. But I really didn't like the plot flow, the characters study was so poor that I simply couldn't believe what was going on there. I couldn't emphasize with both the main characters because, in my perspective, they were really acting randomly. And I'm really sad about this, I really wanted to enjoy it, above all because there aren't a lot of Italian fantasy TV series.

No idea what problems some reviewers have with consistency, acting and plot. This was amazing. Strong characters, emotional, developing story, witchcraft, feminism and medieval ideas all well established throughout.

I felt the pain and anguish of the lead character and had a powerful response to the injustices of the past.

Amazing.

I'm enjoy this series but the producers should do better research about the tome period because portraits were not yet invented in the 17th century. The first daguerrotype portrait was un 1839.

They had a good story, but it dragged on and there were no scenes that brought out the real emotions. The battle scenes were short and unsatisfying. The love scenes never gave in to it. Ade's confusion is not justified for at least the second half of the series, nor is her anger in the last episode. The whole series felt flat.

This show had loads of potential. However it lacks well.. a lot. Many of the main actors (Ada hmph) have problems with displaying emotions. Then there are the many stupid decisions made repeatedly in the plot.. I had to turn it off several times out of annoyance. Really liked it in the beginning but I can't finish it.

I watched it all but man it was rough! I found it very to extremely cringeworthy.

It could be good show but the music doesn't much I m referring specifically to the songs selection

This show was such a mess to watch. The characters thought processes and decision making felt out of place and very random, because of this it makes it hard to connect to the characters as their motivations don't make sense. It touched on a lot of themes like feminism, misogyny, religion vs science, the relationship between life and death, but it never really delved further with that. Its like the writers chose to let these interesting themes fade into the background to focus on the ridiculous relationship between Ade and Pietro. This pairing has a complete lack of chemistry and no relationship development at all relying only on the idea of love at first sight making me cringe at every scene where they attempted to show affection. I really wanted to like this show but the screenwriting makes it incredibly hard to watch all 6 episodes and I was left feeling disappointed and irritated. Wasn't worth my time.

I never leave reviews or like much but this was entertaining.

The show is a crescendo. The first episodes may not fully convince, but above all the last two are well made and have excellent cliffhangers. I'm sure that non-Italian-speaking viewers will appreciate it much more.

Wow! I must say I am impressed and more than slightly blown away! Having just come off watching Sabrina, This witch story is Nothing like it..Both have their niche, but ohh man, this was just a beautiful story of magic,love and gothic power...While Sabrina is kooky, intense,satirical and wayy out there, This story is much much more realistic, grounded yet wildly beautiful in how the witches and their power is portrayed...It is more like A Discovery of Witches than Sabrina..If you like to see magic, witchcraft displayed in ways that seem believable ,yet intense ,captivating and awe inspiring then this show is for you! I watched it dubbed in english and the dubbing and voice acting was superb for all actors in it..I could forget it was dubbed,it was that good! One thing that prevented me from giving this fantastic series a 10 was the use or should I say "misuse" of the soundtrack..It seemed AT Times, very out of place ,not in keeping with the intent and theme of the story and it tended to pull one Out of the moment rather than draw you IN, which Should be the intent of a good soundtrack..It should Enhance not detract from the story...That said, its only a few odd times that this occurs, mostly ,its fine...This is an outstanding foreign effort that draws you immediately into its rich, scary,dark,and beautiful story which has a romance growing at the same time..I loved it and want more seasons ,especially after the cliffhanger!

Ok so first... I watched this in Italian with English subtitles.. Trust me it makes a difference... As for the story.. I thought it held up.. Yes there are some "soap opera" type scenes, but I felt the storyline kept it moving... I really enjoyed this series...initially I began to get annoyed with Ades' reluctance to accept who she is, but I thought the story was interesting and kept me coming back to see what happens next... I really hope it gets renewed for a second season.. Check it out

This was suspenseful, beautiful, intriguing, and entertaining. My husband felt the same. I don't understand these negative reviews here. Maybe they expected something different. It was an absolute delight. We're hoping to see what would come next in a second season!!!!!

Netflix's 'Luna Nera' or 'Black Moon' follows a young woman Ade, who is left with two choices after her Grandma brutal execution - leave the town and embrace her otherworldly powers or pursue a forbidden love story with her boyfriend, Pietro. 'Luna Nera' has been directed by a trio of three powerful women - Francesca Comencini ('Pianoforte'), Susanna Nicchiarelli ('Nicc, 1988') and Paola Randi ('Into Paradiso'), while Francesca Manieri ('The First King'), Laura Paolucci ('Quiet Chaos') and Tiziana Triana serve as the creators.