Netflix miniseries from Germany puts a new spin on the standard story of tech and money scams
You might think you’ve had your fill of dramas about con artists, grifters and the gonzo behaviour of tech geniuses. There was a glut of such series earlier this year and some had much less to deliver than promised. But there’s one gem, largely unheralded, that puts a new spin on the genre and adds a fresh perspective. That’s mainly because it’s a story from Germany. is loosely based on a real financial scandal there.
We meet Felix on a plane when there’s turbulence. He’s just realized that he’s lost the USB stick that has a presentation for investors. Told to sit tight, he starts scrambling to find the stick. “If I don’t find it, we might as well crash,” he tells the appalled flight attendant. Then there’s Magnus, who is older but a born “tech bro,” manipulative and barely able to hide the sleaze behind his alleged success.
What separates the rather awkwardly titled miniseries – six episodes in German with English subtitles – is the sheer buoyancy of it. It’s sardonic but also rueful, and humane in its treatment of the main characters. They carry a jaunty charisma, and they don’t seem entirely sinister. Instead of cynicism, there’s an air of strangely soapy melodrama going on here.Nathan Fielder returns to television in The Rehearsal on HBO/Crave. has been written about much in advance. Probably too much.
Here, Fielder undertakes strange exercises with real people. The first is a man who exaggerated his education to his friends in a trivia-competition group, and wants to make amends. Fielder helps him rehearse multiple scenarios with the help of actors. The idea is that everything in life is a performance and we must train for it. But, before you’ve even got to that point, you realize it’s neither funny nor insightful, and Fielder has empathy for no one as his weird persona overtakes everything.
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