The heart-wrenching Netflix series "From Scratch" - Based on a true story.

 If you haven't watched Netflix's series "From Scratch" premiered on October 21st 2022, please prepare a couple of tissues before you do or wait for when you're truly sad and in need of somewhere to release your anger, haha, but that's how emotional it is. 

From Scratch 

The 8-episode series starring Zoe Saldana as Amy, and Eugenio Mastrandrea as Lino, is a romantic story about an American lady, Amy, who goes to Italy to pursue her Art studies and ends up falling in love with a Sicilian Chef, Lino. 

When her stay in Italy comes to an end, Lino chooses to follow her to America where he dreams of opening up his own restaurant. 

Soon everyone is wrapped in their love story and not even the disapproval of Lino's dad can stop them from starting their family. They have a glamorous wedding and just as when their lives start taking shape with Lino finally opening his restaurant, he is diagnosed with cancer and everything gets back to scratch! 

I don't even know why the series wasn't named From Scratch to Scratch because what is all this! 

Every episode has you on the edge of what terrible thing could come along. 

Just when Lino finally connects with the dad, the dad dies! 

At some point, you wonder if all of it was just scripted but Netflix's From Scratch is actually based on a true story from Tembi Locke's book, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, And Finding Home. 

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, And Finding Home, cover

I can't begin to fathom how much pain one can take in one lifetime! 

It is said that even after Tembi produced the series with her sister Attika Locke, she still hasn't got to watch it because writing the book alone left her wounds fresh from losing her husband.

Locke's husband, Rosario "Saro" Gullo died in 2012 and she published her book on April 19 2019 which inspired the making of the series, From Scratch. 

Tembi Locke and her late husband Rosario

My thoughts about the series.  

• Am still traumatized, more like crying from watching it but did it really have to be this sad??
• Tembi is definitely a strong woman because after going through all this and still blessing the world with this great work is next-level strength, hand down. 
• If they dare produce the next season, we will be rivals because l can't take any more crying. 
• Though some small details were missing like where Lino's sister was all through his sickness (and not just at the end), l will just take what l can get. 

Me as me, l will not give it a whole 5 stars but a 4.5 because l terribly hate sad stories be it true or fictional. My life is already a sad story to start watching more sad stories for fun. 

But well, the production and presentation was on point, and if Zoe doesn't win an Emmy, l will be so mad. 

The series is definitely worth watching but like l said, be emotionally, mentally, and teary-ready, haha and l didn't give away many spoilers!

Are women really incapable of protecting themselves?

 So my house was recently broken into for the second time in a period of a month.  The first time it happened l wasn't shaken, in actual sense l blamed myself because l had adamantly refused to buy a stronger padlock. 

Talk about living in Kampala!

I mean, l was (still is) staying in a seemingly safe neighbourhood and if you have house hunted in Kampala you well know that a house inside a gate (kikomela) is a top priority that you will even pay extra on rent because it is in a gate. 

So since l was in a gate and already paying extra, l didn't want to pay more extra on padlocks and here l was staring at my only tiny padlock that had been opened and thrown in the dustbin for me to find!

My neighbour had called me when l was on my way coming back home after being away for like 3 days and you know that line of "are you shifting, l see your door open" she hit me with it. 

The only thing that occupied my mind from that time of the call was what padlocks could l get. 

I remember passing by capital shoppers in Ntinda and asking about a certain padlock for this lady to tell me that l wouldn't be able to use it. 

Fast forward to three weeks later with my three padlock babies, on a really gloomy morning (and no the birds weren't chirping, haha) l found my door just slightly open while l was coming from the bathroom to pee. 

This was around 6:40 am and l had to travel that day so l wanted to completely finish my sleep. You know when you walk to the bathroom with your eyes half closed so you don't lose momentum of your sleep? That was me. 

It clearly was one of the most refreshing night's sleep l have ever had but at that moment, l felt chills run through my body. I must say that's the most scared l have ever been all my life! Not being robbed but having a stranger prance over me at my weakest moment, in my sleep. 

What was running through my mind was what if he wanted to stab me, what could have stopped him (at this point am sure it's a him), what if he forced himself on me. 

The only things they had taken were my 2 weeks old phone and a 10k note which was supposed to be for my transport. 

I still had my old phone so the immediate person l called was my mum, like always, because she was supposed to top up for me on my 10k for transport and now she had to look for the full amount. God bless that woman. 

The next person l called was a friend and the first thing he said when l told him l had been robbed again was "you need a full-time man to protect you". 

So to him, l was robbed because l didn't have a man in my house. I am a damsel in distress that can't live by itself. 

Would the man have chased away the thief or he would have heard my really annoying alarm padlock since "men have better hearing senses"? 

When did we get to the point that women can not happily live on their own!

So now the goal of every woman has to be finding a man to protect her?

Please teach your daughters to invest in padlocks and not in men since safe places are close to a mystery. 

The first picture this girl took on my phone when we decided it was the one l wanted