Dortmund. The one with the crazy commissioner. This time he was REALLY crazy, somehow even more than before, and it got to be too much for me. When he was throttling his co-worker, the middle-aged woman, it felt personal. I didn't follow the side plot, about the 'murder' (? car accident murder?) of his wife and daughter: could not understand the coroner's report and how it related to their murder. I felt like the writers were relying too much on our remembering what happened from the last Dortmunder Tatort, and I, for one, do not have a memory equal to it. Or perhaps it is because I now crochet granny squares during Tatort and miss the crucial bits.
There was a continuing side-plot to the middle-aged policewoman that I did not recall until it was completely over. Yeah she was in a hotel. Right, does she order gigolos? Was that where it was going? Over before it began. The commissioners (English word?) are getting too complicated. In the old days they were simply allowed to 'be,' with a rather static backstory. The current crop has a back story every bit as busy as the plot and it is too much.
The two young police officers were a welcome breath of normality against their cuckoo middle-aged pendants, were it not for the fact that they are a couple, yet the girl is WAAAAYYY TOO GOOD for the boy. She could do so much better. The girl is meant to be a young deutsch-Türkin, and the guys is of course interested in her culture, family, all the things she is rejecting (?). I do see potential in this story arc. If only the guy wasn't so incredibly unattractive.
The actual plot of Tatort... not very interesting. It occurs to me that I may have seen one too many Tatort by now. They all repeat themselves. A favorite motif is the rape and exploitation of young women. This time only one woman bore the brunt, instead of whole roomfuls of East Europeans smuggled in as prostitutes. No. Not my favorite Tatort ever.
There was a continuing side-plot to the middle-aged policewoman that I did not recall until it was completely over. Yeah she was in a hotel. Right, does she order gigolos? Was that where it was going? Over before it began. The commissioners (English word?) are getting too complicated. In the old days they were simply allowed to 'be,' with a rather static backstory. The current crop has a back story every bit as busy as the plot and it is too much.
The two young police officers were a welcome breath of normality against their cuckoo middle-aged pendants, were it not for the fact that they are a couple, yet the girl is WAAAAYYY TOO GOOD for the boy. She could do so much better. The girl is meant to be a young deutsch-Türkin, and the guys is of course interested in her culture, family, all the things she is rejecting (?). I do see potential in this story arc. If only the guy wasn't so incredibly unattractive.
The actual plot of Tatort... not very interesting. It occurs to me that I may have seen one too many Tatort by now. They all repeat themselves. A favorite motif is the rape and exploitation of young women. This time only one woman bore the brunt, instead of whole roomfuls of East Europeans smuggled in as prostitutes. No. Not my favorite Tatort ever.