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The top series “Oh Hell!” continues
Mala Emde as Helene in season 2 of the Magenta TV series “Oh Hell”. photo
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Germany’s nicest neurotic is back on the screen: Mala Emde shines as series heroine Helene, who also drives her circle of friends crazy in season two.
She lies, makes mischief, she drives people almost crazy, she burned down a forest and at the same time eradicated a rare species of toad – and yet everyone has to love Helene. actress Mala Emde brought this total chaos, Hell for short, to life two years ago and was embraced by television critics.
The dramedy won the German Television Prize and was mentioned in the same breath as the British series blockbusters “Fleabag” and “Pure”, with which the German series “Oh Hell!” not only has a neurotic heroine in her twenties, but also a great wit (screenplay: Johannes Boss). On March 21st new episodes of “Oh Hell!” will finally be released. on the Telekom streaming service Magenta TV.
After her web of lies caused serious distress in the first season, Helene stands remarkably cheerful and unshakable in front of the shambles of her life. Because she started a forest fire with a cigarette butt, the state gave her a choice: prison or a psychiatric day hospital. Helene benefits from the fact that although she doesn’t get anything done in her own everyday life, she still thinks into other people’s lives with incredible imagination. She soon turns the tables on the therapist. The audience, on the other hand, reliably learns her thoughts through Hell’s voiceover comments.
Mala Emde once said about Hell in a PR interview for the production: “Because she wants to please everyone she likes, she always gets caught up in small – and unfortunately also big – white lies. She is strange in the sense of strange. And Her crazy ideas make everyone she comes into contact with see the world differently – better, in my opinion.”
This becomes apparent when Hell’s successful and lively childhood friend Maike (Salka Weber) asks her for help for the first time in her life: Helene is supposed to use her creative madness to help Maike’s agency design an app with a completely new approach. But the heroine remains true to herself and transforms the presentation in front of the very wealthy financier into a nihilistic appearance that Kafka could have dreamed up.
The good friends production (director: Sarah Blaßkiewitz) has eight new episodes. Co-producers are MagentaTV and Warner TV Comedy.