The new “crime scene” from Dortmund requires a lot of prior knowledge. But that’s just one of several problems. The ARD thriller is holeless.
This is a warning: the following explanations could be dizzy. Please hold on and take a secure seating position. The attempt to summarize the changes in the Dortmund “crime scene” should be complicated – we still try.
Stefan Konarske is back. As an investigator Daniel Kossik, he was seen in ten cases of the Dortmund “crime scene” team in 2012, in 2017 he said goodbye to LKA in Düsseldorf-and is now celebrating his comeback after eight years of absence. The personnel carousel in Dortmund is about it faster than you can pronounce the ambiguous but suitable word dizziness. Because it is like fraud on the spectators how the regular staff are dealt with.
In any case, there can be no question of a “crime scene” team, of continuity in the commissioner-and if so, then she is only faked in Dortmund. Or does it change the occupation system? Departures seem to be the Dortmund DNA: In addition to Konarskes investigator Daniel Kossik, Nora Dalay played by Aylin Tezel have already got out of the “crime scene” team. In addition, Martina Bönisch, who was embodied by Anna Schudt, and Jan Pawlak, played by Rick Ocon – and all of this since the end of 2020.
It’s not funny. The “crime scene” from the Ruhrpott comes to the pure “Traum, change”. This is no longer a crime tape, but a chamber game with changing guest stars. The Dortmund team in the “crime scene” cosmos was once a size, a guarantee of exciting entertainment and refined cases. The latest episode “crime scene: siding” shows that these times are long gone – in Dortmund the Sunday thriller only revolves around itself.
Maybe this was also aware of screenwriter Jürgen Werner, which is why he decided to write a 90-minute film about a commissioner. Investigators address their weapons, suspect the other, search for personal belongings from colleagues. A film like a worm hole: if you follow a trace, you travel through the past of a Dortmund police officer – and end up in the commissioner.
What sounds like a tricky “Twin Peaks”-“crime scene” is only a boring navel show for the viewer. It fits that the new murder commission boss Ira Klasnić (Alessija Lause) sends the investigators Peter Faber and Rosa Herzog to clarify an unspectacular case: fatal traffic accident with driver flight. Another body will be found later – and this is connected to the surprise, closely with the people involved in the Dortmund “crime scene”.
Some viewers may now object that the horizontal narrative in Dortmund has always had a tradition. But as this is taken to the extreme in this case, it is almost involuntarily funny and not just self -referential: “Crime scene: siding” symbolizes how little interest the creators are of developing exciting new ideas. The thriller shows an example of how much you only deal with yourself.
It is completely out of the question that in addition to the regular audience, there should also be spectators who do not know every predecessor of the thriller in and by heart. However, this seems to be little disturbing to the responsible WDR: In “siding”, the action of previous episodes is treated cheerfully, relationships between former main characters (Kossik and Faber) are taken for granted and family stories of commissioners (Herzog) use without explanations as a dramaturgical element.
Anyone who still looks through there seems to have stored a master in Dortmund-Tatortology-or something like that. To make matters worse, the latest case ends with the fact that some personnel questions remain unanswered. Oh yes, and another change within the commissioner is certain. Soon the “crime scene” from the West can move through the republic as a hiking circus, working title: “Faber and Co.”.
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