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Actors Jan Josef Liefers, Axel Prahl: Fear of the sensitivity officer
Photo: WDR
Weekeness theme week on ARD?
On Wednesday, »Nothing happened to us«, a strong, stirring #MeToo drama from the milieu of prospective academics ran, where aspects of gender discourse were negotiated at the highest level and with the greatest sensitivity.
At the end of the week, the Münster "crime scene" about a murdered momfluencer is followed by the slapstick and rowdy debates.
A significant scene: Inspector Thiel (Axel Prahl) goes through the insults in the comment column of the Momfluencerin homepage with the young IT nerd Schrader (Björn Meyer) while he is chewing on a thick, cold bockwurst.
Schrader reads: "Bitch", "Bitch", "You're a real TV shopping whore", "You bitch piece of dirt".
Thiel continues to chew his sausage.
Prosecutor Klemm (Mechthild Großmann) comes over, leans over the screen and says: »And I always thought my generation had problems with the image of women.«
A particularly nasty hate comment on Momfluencerin comes from a user with the pseudonym BusyBine.
The public prosecutor instructs IT nerd Schrader: »Well then, let's see who is behind BusyBine.« Schrader jokes: »Probably a really fucked up busy bitch.« When Klemm gives him a poison arrow look, he stammers: »Oh, that I'm sorry.
I have to apologize.
And for all women.
For everything.« Thiel stands still and giggles embarrassed into his sausage.
Professor Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) is also exposed to the pressure of new social developments.
His colleague in forensic medicine, Silke Haller (ChrisTine Ursprechen), who, as a woman of short stature, is exposed to Boerne's irony ambitions in two ways, threatens the snob to apply for the position of "sensitivity officer".
Whatever that is exactly - the title sounds threatening in its official status.
There's friction there
The last Chauvi skirmish, that's how you could describe this episode of the Münster "crime scene", which in the ARD network is considered a retreat for emphatically incorrect, stubborn fellowness.
It was written and directed by two women (script: Regine Bielefeldt, director: Michaela Kezele).
Now there's pretty friction in there.
It's a bit of a pleasure to watch Boerne lose his way in mansplaining monologues while Proll Thiel tries his hand at linguistic sensitivity.
Like a butcher folding Japanese paper flowers.
Another characteristic scene: During their research on the World Wide Web, Boerne and Thiel not only come across momfluencers who handle babies and baby dummies in front of the camera, but also manfluencers who keep everything in the picture that shoots and bangs.
Thiel ponders: "If this is the new masculinity, we can really pack up our sex." Boerne stubbornly: "I don't need a new masculinity.
I'm more than satisfied with my old masculinity.« And when his colleague asks him which women he could ask about the external impact of his masculinity, the only people he can think of are public prosecutor Klemm and coroner Haller.
Then you want to hold him in your arms.
Exactly one year ago, Boerne and Thiel could still be seen in a big, horrible world conspiracy stupidity - so please don't expect any miracles from Münster.
But how in the course of the new "crime scene" moments of filigree self-sufficiency flash up again and again in the naughty jokes, that's more than 90 minutes.
A last significant scene: Boerne and Thiel ring the neighbor of the murdered Momfluencerin.
She also tries herself as an influencer, yoga, fitness, a bit of strength training.
Boerne, the affected esthete, stares at the massive upper arms of his counterpart and asks briskly: "What are you lifting like that?
You're pumping!" Thiel, the woke sausage, is trying to use his newly acquired language sensitivity to promote trust in the opposite sex and raves about "Bürger:innen".
Interviewing witnesses with a glottal stop: That is a small step for mankind, but a big one for Münster.
Rating:
6 out of 10 points
»Tatort: MagicMom«,
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