A huge responsibility and great expectations were shattered on the Netflix screen due to the series “Berlin”, which a large segment of the audience had been waiting for for a whole year and which was broadcast only a few days ago. between starting a drama series from scratch with no prior expectations, and starting it strong and moving on. All eyes are around to see what you will deliver to satisfy them, which makes it imperative for you to give them work that meets their expectations or not deliver at all. This is the failure that the creators of “Berlin” did not take into account.
The work would have been more successful if it had been presented as a drama that showed an insight into the emotional side of thieves (IMDB)
The Spanish series “Berlin” aired on December 29 and, being the work derived from the most famous Spanish series “La Casa De Papel”, it enjoyed a large audience and the possibility of being watched effortlessly.
The hero of the work is “Berlin”, the brother of “The Professor”, who died in the last episode of the first season of the series “House of Money”, but due to the attachment of viewers to him and his remarkable performance , the Netflix platform gave him this great and wasted opportunity.
Business history
The “Berlin” series, like “The Money House”, belongs to the category of detective and suspense films, in particular intelligent and exciting thefts, which take place years before the professor’s plan to rob the House is put into action of Money in Spain. – this time in Paris. As a teenager, Berlin, together with another gang, aimed to seize jewels worth 44 million euros in one night.
The audience expects to witness a brilliant plan and suspenseful events in an unnerving dramatic escalation, especially since the work is written by Alex Pena and Esther Martinez Lobato, authors of other successful Spanish experiences for Netflix, such as “La Casa de Babel” and the “Vis a Vis.” series, but unfortunately it is disappointing.
The film enjoyed a large audience and effortless pre-viewing (IMDP)
Thieves but lovers
Perhaps the work would have achieved greater success if it had been presented as a drama that showed an insight into the emotional side of thieves and how love can ruin everything, since for its sake what is expensive becomes cheap, so that some people don’t mind sacrificing the theft of a life and millions for the sake of a person they just met, threatening the common good of the entire team and increasing the chance of getting caught by the police.
It all started with Berlin falling in love at first sight with his victim’s wife, and instead of the man we knew before, accustomed to not paying attention to emotional matters or anything that might get in the way of plans, we find him following his heart like an attractive teenager running through the streets.
The episodes continue without much suspense, only illogical or expected events, and even the operation that they promote as a very precise and surprisingly planned theft suddenly goes by the wayside and is hidden behind a drama that only concerns the feelings of the protagonists. heroes and how they deal with love in light of many melodramas about their emotional experiences.
This resulted in audience distraction due to the many chaotic sub-threads, especially because clues that could have been exploited to create clever plot twists or truly exciting events, whether for suspense or curiosity, were wasted and replaced with naive and unjustified complications.
Late attempt at reform
Although the “La Casa de Babel” series had love stories based on duets between its heroes, the difference is that here the issue seemed more banal and obvious, as if the authors were trying to emulate the reasons for the success of the previous experience . and nothing else, before the work approached a boring and worn-out version, devoid of originality.
When the filmmakers tried to remedy the problem, increasing the amount of excitement in the last two episodes, and inserting two female faces from the “Bayt Al-Mal” series, namely the investigators Raquel (Itziar Itunio) and Alicia (Najwa Nimeiry), who were known for their great hostility, although this time we see them before the breakup. Both have a large or crucial area, and what’s worse is that they have become older than they were in the “House of Money” even though the events of “Berlin” take place in an earlier time period.
However, the seventh and eighth episodes remain the most popular with the audience, as they managed to increase the viewer’s adrenaline level and force him to stay in his place to find out what will happen.
The open-ended portion of the work suggests more thefts will occur (IMDB)
Open ending and negative impressions
The work had an open ending that hinted that more thefts would come, at least until reaching a meeting point between the two main works, but at the same time one cannot ignore the negative impressions that the series has received from part of the public or critics, that renewing the works for a second season is a gamble, a worrying and risky risk that could be out of place if Netflix accepts it, unless the creators of “Berlin” rethink a new formula for success and to win back the audience they have wasted in vain.
“Berlin” is a Spanish series of which the first season, consisting of 8 episodes, has been released, and therefore is suitable for viewing by fans of short European dramas, as long as they do not set any expectations in advance. The work features a group with Pedro Alonso, Michelle Jenner, Tristan Ulloa, Begonia Vargas, Julio Peña Fernandez and Joel Sanchez.
2024-01-12 04:28:29
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