D.he Generation Y thinks it’s sweet: a surprise egg that you can remove from chocolate and toys; a piece of paper on which a message is scribbled; a spade with which the yellow capsule is buried in the ground – and then a celebratory binge a decade later, in which the assembled circle of friends digs up the “time eggs” under the tree and reads out what everyone says on the subject of “I will be in ten years “Noted on his slip of paper.
For the teacher Helena (Katharina Nesytowa), who recently moved into a house in Teltow with her boyfriend Tayo (Malick Bauer) and wants to populate the garden with children, a “time egg” threatens to turn into a time bomb. She has a secret and has kept it well so far. But on the day when the Freundeskreis digs up the eggs, Annika (Eva Maria Jost) is also part of the party after twelve years of radio silence. And she once told the egg: “In ten years I, Annika Baer, will still be with my great love Helena.”
Surprise egg and time bomb
There is no revelation: Annika makes the “time egg” disappear before Tayo and the “grown up” friends find out about the secret relationship from back then. In the hands of Helena the bomb goes off anyway, and the old feelings come back: is she getting involved? In the inconspicuous series “We” developed by a team of authors led by Sandra Stöckmann and Gesa Scheibner, that is the crucial question. Despite all the challenges that same-sex couples are faced with, not to mention the risk of coming out, it sounds terribly banal.
As a thirtysomething romance with a dash of drama, “Wir” works surprisingly well. The little story doesn’t want more than it can. And the series, which has been growing in the media library since September, consists of twelve short episodes of twenty minutes each. This is a format that is easy to consume and makes the question of whether the arcs of tension really hold into the background. The television broadcast begins with the first four episodes in a row.
The cast is particularly consistent: Eva Maria Jost plays Annika with red lips and a changeable, sometimes shining and sometimes lost look. We suspect that she is trying to compensate for emotional breaks through her job as an architect (sleek car, hip projects through to “shit skyscrapers”). Katharina Nesytowa, known for “In the face of crime” and “In all friendship – the young doctors”, as Helena vacillates back and forth between her feelings for Annika and those for Tayo. Lorris Andre Blazejewski also has more to offer than the initial high-the-cup face. He mimes Maik, who is in a tense relationship with his sister Annika. While Maik portrays the happy, albeit unlived dreams of New York instead of Teltow with family people dragging around, Helena’s excited colleague Emre (Erol Afsin) suffers from the separation of Melanie (Natalia Rudziewicz) and their daughter. A popular figure.
The ARD recently showed the series “All you need”, which tells about gay men, shortly afterwards on ZDFneo the series “Loving her” about women who love women, then the sitcom “The Drag and Us”. The series “We” is part of an overzealous program offensive with which the public broadcasters want to emphasize their commitment to diversity in the summer after the “#ActOut” manifesto, and the ensemble could hardly be more diverse.
But “we” deserved not to emphasize the identity-political background too much and thereby achieve that anything but the qualities of the production were talked about. This series, which has a very immediate effect through the use of a handheld camera, sometimes squinting nicely in the summer light and puts you in the evening mood with the pop music background (Antje Schomaker has a guest appearance with “All good things are we”), could with a little perseverance turn into a soap -Bead become. The second season, which is currently being shot, will put Emre in the foreground.
we starts today at 8:15 p.m. on ZDFneo.
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