This series is one for film school. To demonstrate the importance of the director. Give them students one question: who can tell me which episode is directed by what director?
And to demonstrate the importance of the casting director. Of all Belgian actors, WHY Kevin Janssens in the lead role?
And of the DOP, editor, color grading ... by the time episode 8 was shot they must have sacked half of the crew. And all of the script and dialogue writers with them. There is no other explanation on how they managed to bring down a great idea for an unexpected series, start of so strongly and ended it as a soap opera.
Oh, and one more: I would love to know who did the language training to the actors. For speakers of Jiddish and Hebrew most probably a lot of the dialogues sound really bad, but for me, a very natural point in this series seems the switching between languages. Them non native actors must have rehearsed real hard to get all those lines come off naturally. Correct me if I am wrong?
And to demonstrate the importance of the casting director. Of all Belgian actors, WHY Kevin Janssens in the lead role?
And of the DOP, editor, color grading ... by the time episode 8 was shot they must have sacked half of the crew. And all of the script and dialogue writers with them. There is no other explanation on how they managed to bring down a great idea for an unexpected series, start of so strongly and ended it as a soap opera.
Oh, and one more: I would love to know who did the language training to the actors. For speakers of Jiddish and Hebrew most probably a lot of the dialogues sound really bad, but for me, a very natural point in this series seems the switching between languages. Them non native actors must have rehearsed real hard to get all those lines come off naturally. Correct me if I am wrong?