Isabelle Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zuercher) and Tessa Ott (Carol Schuler) have been investigating in Zurich since 2020, and after the years with her predecessor Flückiger from Lucerne, the new beginning was seen with joy. The duo were emotionally and intellectually alien to each other – and excitingly raw. Grandjean: from the French-speaking Jura, reserved, and returned from his job at the International Criminal Court with a profound knowledge of Inhumans. Ott: as a person who tends to be unstable, pulled out of the existence of a rich daughter and then became a profiler via the squatter scene. In their first cases, they were two outsiders, blown by different celestial winds. Finally, you thought. Now things often turn out differently, but it’s still absolutely amazing how the Zurich man did it crime scene Given this perfect constellation, things could turn out so badly in such a short time.
Hard on the edge of a soap: In the showdown, everyone rushes to exactly where they need to be
The current case is called “Blinder Fleck” and is the second Zurich episode this year after “Seilschaften” by the authors Claudia Pütz and Karin Heberlein and director Tobias Ineichen. Two men have agreed to meet at a tranquil edge of the forest, one coming by bike, the other in an SUV with the family. Then three people are dead, the men and the wife in the car. Ella, the little daughter, survived. On the one hand, the case leads Grandjean and Ott into the business of drones and facial recognition software. And on the other hand, back to war crimes in Bosnia. The case is therefore by no means fundamentally lacking in relevance. The fact that it is missing is due to the credibility problem – not so much the plot, but the style. Speaking in drone terms: the altitude when it comes to emotional complexity is almost dangerously low.
Grandjean has to sit out for long periods because the traumatized Ella constantly clings to her. To emphasize how seriously Grandjean takes caring, this is shown over and over again. When she calls her friend Milan over, who sings “Blistaj, blistaj, zvijezdo mala” to Ella in Croatian, the child falls asleep so quickly after half a verse that the man with the number could appear. And so it goes, on the edge of a soap: In the showdown, someone runs across Zurich to exactly the place where the person has to be so that death overtakes them. Or someone can make it to the roof of a high-rise building from now on because evil never makes a living. Criticism like that is just no fun at all. Where did Grandjean and Ott go from 2020? Please solve the case in Zurich.
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