You either love it or hate it. La Palma, that is. The show about a family trying to get authorities to do something to prepare for the impending doom of a natural disaster that could cause millions to be injured has divided viewers.
Because we live in the world we do, and most human beings have a computer where they can use their words to express to the rest of us how they feel about a certain subject (much like I am doing right now with you), people can log in to their favorite review site and post some thoughts. The ones on Rotten Tomatoes might make La Palma fans angry. Or maybe give them a laugh.
Oddly, there are only three professional reviews. Maybe critics simply do not want to take the time to write about every Netflix series. There are a lot of them and a lot of them are pretty good (for the sake of our subject matter on this site, let's just say most of them are fantastic!).
Rotten Tomatoes reviews of La Palma might be better than the show itself
Many have an issue with the family dynamic on the Norwegian show. It is a bit odd, and the character interactions sometimes feel like the least realistic things on a series that is not based on anything close to realism. We believe the disaster could happen, but we might not feel as if the familial relationships could.
One reviewer wrote, "The level of corniness in multiple scenes was difficult to stomach. By episode two, I started to wonder if I was watching a parody intended to poke fun of the natural disaster film genre."
Another posted something far more harsh: "I found myself hoping they would die by the end. But I typical fashion there was an unbelievable happy end. Ridiculous."
Another reviewer wrote somewhat confusingly, "The show itself was a great watch through and through. But the last episode was why it lost two stars from me."
The masses on Rotten Tomatoes, also known as the site's Popcornmeter, have given La Palma an overall value of 30 percent. This is astonishingly low for a series that is seemingly doing quite well. Perhaps the show will return with a faster-paced season 2 when the characters find themselves living in some other area with a potential natural disaster.
In fact, that might work better than season 1 did. Imagine how fun it would be for the characters to become global "back lucks" so that authorities everywhere try to keep them (you can choose which characters go elsewhere) from entering their part of the world. In the end, the natural disaster would simply be the characters themselves.