I finally got around to watching the whole thing yesterday. I enjoyed it immensely.

I have seen the trailer for it, but nothing more.
I do see some parallels between what I observed in students from a polygamist Mormon group, and comments left here.

The book - A Year of Living Biblically, by AJ Jacobs is a humorous, enlightening look at Jewish/biblical traditions in modern America.

I was raised Reform Jewish, the least restrictive form of Judaism. Even so, many ultra-Orthodox and Hasidim wouldn't even consider me Jewish because I've never adhered to any strict rules. And though I've always known about the Hasidim, they would always perplex me. Even in a huge city like New York they remain largely separate and secluded; as a result, much of their life remains hidden. As far as I'm concerned, they're almost like a cult in the way they order and control pretty much any aspect of members' lives. There have been both fiction and non-fiction books, stories, and movies about the people inside, but "Unorthodox" is unique in that it's probably one of very few dramatizations from a Hasidic woman's point of view.

In religious groups women are always second class citizens. In a subtle way you know that they are a fraud by the way they unequally treat women as inferiors.

I read the book and I've seen the show. It's bloody amazing. Also as someone who has a Jewish background, I must say that I haven't seen a lot of popular media covering this topic. They tend to portray them as very pious and wonderful.

I finished watching it this weekend. While it was captivating, if a tad long and perhaps over dramatized for TV (I'd have to read the book to determine how much) I found myself wanting to know more about life in the community, and what happens afterwards in Deborah's life story. I've talked with folks from the ex-Morman and ex-Mulism communities and their stories are quite fascinating - and often profoundly sad. I guess Deborah also wrote a book "Exodus" about that phase of her life so I'll probably check that out: [deborahfeldman.com] (or just wait for Netflix to dramatize that too?)

Just watched the first episode.

I watched it. Lots of correlation with things I've seen in religion although I've never seen anything that extreme. It was totally believable to me.

I watched it . A part of it is about the period . This wasn't all that different , than how all women were treated in the 1960 time frame . While the rest of us didn't have to have all our hair shaved off when we married , and we had a say in whom we married , much of the rest of it was the same . In this time period , we had no real sex education . The hyman , came as a nasty surprise . While part A goes into part B , was explained , there was no mention of fore play . If there was any complaint , it was her fault , and she had to deal with it , with no , "training ."

My daughter and I watched it and enjoyed it. as a side note arranged marriages are a financial arrangement between families.

I thought it was great. It showed how restrictive and sexist the Hasids are. The refusal of them, along with other religious groups, to conform with social distancing is partly responsible for some of the horrendous Covid-19 numbers in NJ (Lakewood) I do highly recommend Unorthodox. Entertaining and insightful.

I watched the entire thing. Liked it, but am familiar with this sort of thing. Don't understand this statement: I guess they also deserve a prize for really sticking to many of the anachronistic Old Testament rules, and ancient Jewish traditions. Really? Why?Look at the havoc it wreaks on the women and the Old Testament was written by 2000 year old sheep herders;hardly paragons of knowledge and morality. Remember, their beloved Moses was a mass murderer and mass rapist. IMO, ultra orthodox anyone revel in mass delusion and stupendous stupidity like the evangelicals who think Trump was sent by Jesus and is doing a good job as they sicken and die from the coronavirus.

I really liked it and I found it got better the further I went. I am not going to spoil anything but episode 4 was very powerful. There is also a short film about the making of the series that is also very interesting. There are not too many films/tv series in Yiddish, English, German and Hebrew. Many of the actors are native Yiddish speakers but I was surprised to see how experienced they are. My major litmus for shows in general is how much I care about the characters and I found myself caring a great deal about several of the characters.

I have not watched it but I can identify. My opinion is that we have these type communities and others like Mormonism extremes that people claim we should avoid and yet, our population at large wants us all to be religious and "founded on religion" but it simply is not true. My religious friend now goes to a Baptist church where I'm sure he does not fall on the floor and flop around speaking in tongues but yet he thinks he is "right." He agrees with me on Evangelicals but that is where he came from. His opinions still have that typical Evangelical bias in almost every area. Religious evolution is often very slow and the current American regime wants to stop it and highjack religion to use against us. The new "cult" wants us to believe freedom of religion is why we came here and stop or prevent anything involving women or religious freedom.

I watched it last weekend and thought it was great. I believe it is quite accurate in its depiction of that community and their unusual traditions.(Unusual is the nicest way I can think of describing them.)