Ok so I just binged the series in one evening and although I had early morning work I couldn't stop until 12:30am. This means I found the series addictive and you cannot stop once you start.
In saying that, I wish the ending was different!
Anywho I want to put my view on the story and here it is-
The series is slow paced but keeps you engaged, the acting is good and the screenplay is captivating. However, the story relies heavily on shock value. They are showing you things that are so out of normal for a regular person, hence you are hooked to see the lives of these deranged people.
Basically, the story revolves around these 6 'friends' who are, in my opinion, somewhat perverted and love to hangout together because they share the same crooked ideology. I can imagine these guys will have hard time finding normality outside this circle and hence they stick with each other. There is no sense of friendship or companionship, and this is shown many times throughout the series, Butcher raping Elena, all 3 raping Elena, all choking each other over a small argument, no respect for your 'friend's' wife etc etc. They simply use each other for their own benefit.
This is never explained in the series why that's the case, I.e., why are they like this. I wish they had shown more of their parents and the background.
I don't understand how Toothless is in that school, is this via some scholarship program? I mean he doesn't look like he belonged to a high class society. And that catholic boarding looks like for rich parents? One more point- Why they don't go home during summer holidays. Etc etc.
Now let's talk about characters, I feel for Mortiz and Butcher, their character was developed a bit and of course Elena. But they don't show much about Katharine, Toothless and Roman. I want to know their backstory as well.
The story takes you places that makes you very uncomfortable, for example that orgy scene where Butcher is pleasing K, when you think of it, they are 13-14 year old kids! And then rape is like a casual thing anyone is doing it and no one is getting in trouble! And the old school principal is sleeping and impregnating 18 year old K.
Another thing that made me very uncomfortable was Elena killing that lady's son and wears his perfume to attract mother (Sandra Borgman). I mean to think of what the mother will go through when she will find this out! The daughter she took care of had killed her own son and worst- made a perfume out of him. How twisted is that!. I wish Elena got way harder punishment for that. Just to get beaten by her cruel husband and aborting her own child herself and being raped probably is not enough! She was a true freak to have done what she did. But I understand why she became like this. She suppressed her emotions so much so that she probably wanted to feel truly loved for once and this is her justification. Her father was also closed and retracted so perhaps no parental love there either.
And then we come to the cop. What a poorly written character. At least K did what she wanted to and lived life on her own terms. A female equivalent of a gigolo? But the cop had no self esteem. I rooted for her until she was pregnant and her decision to keep the baby but the ending was like - oh no you didn't. I wish they had shot it like this- "during fight with the psychiatrist, she accidentally breaks the perfume bottle but some gets spilled on her. And then Cop Boss comes and he is naturally attracted to her because of the perfume and she pushes him away and walks away from the scene and in the background they show Mattias looking at her. Making it look like she knew she had perfume on her and she could have used it to her advantage with the boss, but she is over this and finally moving on and Mattias is happy looking at this". This would have been way better ending instead of her stooping so low and trying it yet again to seduce him.
Now we come to the psychiatrist- why she does what she did is so under explained. I understand that she craved for her mother's love because the twin took all the love away but why K? Is it because Toothless is telling her about K? She could Have killed any other "unpredictable" woman for this! I wish they had rather shown the Paychiatrist during their teen years and she is wanting to grab their attention and they constantly insult her. Or probably rape her and threaten her. This will make more sense why she kills K and frame others or why she wanted to make the perfume of Love. But there is sadly no explanation and the killer comes out of the blue. And why is Jens helping her?
Anyway, I loved the series despite its flaws. Couldn't stop thinking about it! I definitely recommend for all dark thriller lovers.
P.S. any Dark fans here- it was a delight to see young and old Elizabeth Doppler both in this series
In saying that, I wish the ending was different!
Anywho I want to put my view on the story and here it is-
The series is slow paced but keeps you engaged, the acting is good and the screenplay is captivating. However, the story relies heavily on shock value. They are showing you things that are so out of normal for a regular person, hence you are hooked to see the lives of these deranged people.
Basically, the story revolves around these 6 'friends' who are, in my opinion, somewhat perverted and love to hangout together because they share the same crooked ideology. I can imagine these guys will have hard time finding normality outside this circle and hence they stick with each other. There is no sense of friendship or companionship, and this is shown many times throughout the series, Butcher raping Elena, all 3 raping Elena, all choking each other over a small argument, no respect for your 'friend's' wife etc etc. They simply use each other for their own benefit.
This is never explained in the series why that's the case, I.e., why are they like this. I wish they had shown more of their parents and the background.
I don't understand how Toothless is in that school, is this via some scholarship program? I mean he doesn't look like he belonged to a high class society. And that catholic boarding looks like for rich parents? One more point- Why they don't go home during summer holidays. Etc etc.
Now let's talk about characters, I feel for Mortiz and Butcher, their character was developed a bit and of course Elena. But they don't show much about Katharine, Toothless and Roman. I want to know their backstory as well.
The story takes you places that makes you very uncomfortable, for example that orgy scene where Butcher is pleasing K, when you think of it, they are 13-14 year old kids! And then rape is like a casual thing anyone is doing it and no one is getting in trouble! And the old school principal is sleeping and impregnating 18 year old K.
Another thing that made me very uncomfortable was Elena killing that lady's son and wears his perfume to attract mother (Sandra Borgman). I mean to think of what the mother will go through when she will find this out! The daughter she took care of had killed her own son and worst- made a perfume out of him. How twisted is that!. I wish Elena got way harder punishment for that. Just to get beaten by her cruel husband and aborting her own child herself and being raped probably is not enough! She was a true freak to have done what she did. But I understand why she became like this. She suppressed her emotions so much so that she probably wanted to feel truly loved for once and this is her justification. Her father was also closed and retracted so perhaps no parental love there either.
And then we come to the cop. What a poorly written character. At least K did what she wanted to and lived life on her own terms. A female equivalent of a gigolo? But the cop had no self esteem. I rooted for her until she was pregnant and her decision to keep the baby but the ending was like - oh no you didn't. I wish they had shot it like this- "during fight with the psychiatrist, she accidentally breaks the perfume bottle but some gets spilled on her. And then Cop Boss comes and he is naturally attracted to her because of the perfume and she pushes him away and walks away from the scene and in the background they show Mattias looking at her. Making it look like she knew she had perfume on her and she could have used it to her advantage with the boss, but she is over this and finally moving on and Mattias is happy looking at this". This would have been way better ending instead of her stooping so low and trying it yet again to seduce him.
Now we come to the psychiatrist- why she does what she did is so under explained. I understand that she craved for her mother's love because the twin took all the love away but why K? Is it because Toothless is telling her about K? She could Have killed any other "unpredictable" woman for this! I wish they had rather shown the Paychiatrist during their teen years and she is wanting to grab their attention and they constantly insult her. Or probably rape her and threaten her. This will make more sense why she kills K and frame others or why she wanted to make the perfume of Love. But there is sadly no explanation and the killer comes out of the blue. And why is Jens helping her?
Anyway, I loved the series despite its flaws. Couldn't stop thinking about it! I definitely recommend for all dark thriller lovers.
P.S. any Dark fans here- it was a delight to see young and old Elizabeth Doppler both in this series