Often in crime scene complains that you don’t understand anything. The annoying mumbling of text doesn’t happen to the theater people Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch as Frankfurt investigators Janneke and Brix on television anyway. That’s nice, but that’s not the only reason why the episode “Loss of Control” – a story about the far too close entanglement of two highly sensitive people who are also mother and son – is a surprisingly delicate listening experience. There is no gunshot in this crime thriller, but rather an intoxicating, otherworldly sound caresses and caresses the dark scenes. And the question arises: Yes, where are we here? Has German television run out of cheesy sauce sound? Is this even allowed, such a sabotage of mediocrity?
Who is more dangerous, the mother or the son? Jeanette Hain as artist Annette Baer and Béla Gábor Lenz as Lucas, who comes home with blood on his hands.
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The secret star of this one crime scene is the Hessischer Rundfunk symphony orchestra, which plays the insane film music by Bertram Denzel and Max Knoth. Not necessarily obvious: Jeanette Hain holds up to the elegiac sound in her role as a nervous, unstable artist and an absorbing mother. The director Elke Hauck, who also wrote the script together with Sven S. Poser, turns complicated inner life outward so quietly that it requires no understanding or empathy from the viewer. In terms of marketing, this borders on self-destruction; after all, identification is the currency in the emotional film business. Two years ago, Hauck showed how to create great tension with such mystery in the unusual police mystery drama Caught with Wolfram Koch in the lead role, which ARD could easily repeat. “I would like to lose control again with someone,” says Koch now as Brix in this one crime scene.
There is farewell in the air, a few days ago Koch and Broich announced that the next case they had just completed next year would be their last. What a pity. The two are among the few crime scene-Teams you would like to see more of. But recent full-on mega-episodes – “Life, Death, Ecstasy” and “Mercy. Too Late” – suggest the idea that perhaps it’s not a question of when to stop. But how.
The first, Tuesday, December 26th, 8:15 p.m.
You can find further SZ series recommendations here.