That's not your typical Austrian comedy (which usually centers on wordplay and/or absurd humour); here the jokes are simple, brutal, sometimes bloody, and most times somebody gets hurt, in spirit if not bodily. It's a nice deviation from the otherwise comparatively safe and unobtrusive world of Austrian TV/cinema co-productions. And while the story goes completely over-the-top (albeit in a foreseeable way), the fact remains that at its heart it's a "true" story in that there really are a lot of families going bankrupt or breaking up while trying for the "Austrian dream", meaning a luxury detached, surrounded by hedges, with a double garage, possibly in the open countryside.
Review of Hinterholz 8
