'Like so many TV series at the moment, 'From Scratch' would work better as a movie. But even so, there is a cumulative power to it,' writes Tribune critic Nina Metz.
In"From Scratch," Zoe Saldaña stars in a lightly fictionalized adaptation of Tembi Locke's memoir about the experience of falling in love with her husband, losing him to cancer and connecting with his Sicilian roots.
The eight-part Netflix drama “From Scratch,” starring Zoe Saldaña, is a lightly fictionalized adaptation of that story, beginning when Amy enrolls in an art program in Florence, Italy, where she meets and falls in love with a chef named Lino .Two years later, they’re living together and making a go of it in Los Angeles — she’s working at an art gallery, he’s waiting tables and dreaming of opening his own restaurant. Slowly, things finally look to be coming together for Lino professionally.
But that’s not what “From Scratch” is really getting at, landing too close for my taste to something you might describe as elevated Hallmark, as if it were studiously avoiding anything too revealing about the actual people it’s loosely based on. It’s up to everyone else on screen to inject some needed energy that is so clearly missing from our central pair.
Paride Benassai is also especially good as Lino’s stubborn father, who holds a grudge against his son for not remaining in Sicily to take over the family farm.about so much — too careful — but every so often there’s a line of dialogue that hints at a sense of humor. “So you’re the brown girl,” a gallery owner says to Amy during a job interview. Excuse me, she replies? “You went to Brown?”
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