I had many other headers for my comment like "17 minutes to disappointment", "Rapl diváku", "Czech version of Major Crimes (MC) final season", "Crime may pay or not, but will demolish you" or "How to pose as an intellectual guy".
This series has several pros, as it involves pretty good crime stories for each episode within a larger and independent one along both seasons, characters performance is solvent with personal issues and twists for the good and bad people as well -like we usually appreciate in nordic productions, but luckily less (incredibly) dramatic and with many pinchs of light humor-, and unfolding different situations not only in several cities of Czechia but also thru Germany, Montenegro, Ukraine, etc.
The main problem is when the writer/director decided how to close the whole plot, destroying everything that was accomplished for the sake of an uncertain goal that I cannot quite decipher. Maybe they were told no money was available for more seasons, maybe actors had decided to move on and leave the show. So, they took the path for an MC type of revenge or preferred an intellectual-antihero touch which turned pretty out of context. Or, maybe, the message they envisaged since the beginning was a sadistic approach towards we, the viewers, whilst holding the gloomy notification that messing up with the mafia will only attach heavy burdens to law enforcers.
Because, after 25 hours of nice entertainment and sound police achievements, the last 17 minutes plunge into a straight warning about the banality of fighting against crime and the clumsiness of the czech police. The main character takes a implausible decision (not the killing but the confession) as if he was an unpolluted and law abiding officer -he wasn't and it is OK for me- and had no responsibilities as a father and grandfather. In parallel, all his colleagues - alive or dead - become losers in one way or another, except (perhaps) for Mácha -the best laughable character accomplished-. There is no way for a third season with this people, unless new absurd twists are put in place. It's done.
Is there a clear winner? Well, maybe Vuk, the gangster's son could be nominated as the promise of the future; it is called evolution by the strongest.
So, beware any future show including writer/director Pachl or actor Cermák (in my opinion, leading actors must be accountable when accepting a role); they may disappoint you, again. Or not; I concede that, about tastes and despite my frustration, there is nothing written on stone.
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