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Το παιδι some more comments on the series together with some other ...trifia

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To Paidi (The Child)  a series very intriguing   the Tarantino  way  of adding inverse letters      The premise starts out fairly standard: an autistic boy lives with his mum and his dad, who happens to be a Russian mobster operating in the night. They decide to hire a young woman as the boy's nanny. Then, after a completely unhinged near-death incident, the kid (Dimitris), the nanny, and her mates all leg it to a remote village called Neochori—one of 54 places in Greece with that exact same name! What follows is a portrait of life in a village that feels like it's stuck in another century, and all the glorious madness that goes with it. If I wrote out the whole plot, we'd be here all day, so I'll cut to the chase. So why has this show got Greek viewers absolutely losing it—in the best way—every single week? For starters, the series isn't just wildly original in its storytelling; it also blends in dark comedy that, by its very nature, ta...