As of: March 7, 2024, 8:35 p.m
By: Stefanie Thyssen
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A relationship that is as intimate as it is difficult: Floriane (Katja Riemann) and her daughter Luna (Hannah Schiller) in “Reset”.
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What if…?
How would we act if we could turn back time?
Would we live a life different from our real one?
Questions that are as old as humanity, but continue to fascinate.
ZDF has made a furious series out of this material.
Not easy fare, but a story that grabs you emotionally, captivates, challenges and - at best - enriches you.
At the center is a terrific Katja Riemann, who you can believe in everything she plays over six episodes in “Reset – How far do you want to go?”
BY STEFANIE THYSSEN
The suicide of her 15-year-old daughter Luna (also great: Hannah Schiller) is the dramatic low point in the life of Flo Bohringer (Riemann).
Until then, she had led a life as a successful television show host, was self-confident and a fierce feminist.
She is divorced from her husband Jens (theatre star Thomas Loibl), but after the separation he stayed in the same house and moved into the apartment one floor higher, so that the two children, Luna and her big brother Carlo (Paul Ahrens), did not get involved parent had to decide.
While Carlo is an uncomplicated boy - good at school, successful in sports, socially integrated and relaxed through puberty ("Don't we have a great son?") - things are different with Luna.
Even as a little girl, she had panic attacks at night, hardly dared to go to school and is still plagued by complexes to this day.
Most recently, she led a teenage life that remained partly hidden from her parents.
She had fallen out with her friends, secretly given up her passion, gymnastics, and took refuge in a toxic relationship with a slightly older boy.
When she comes home one day and has apparently been beaten, her framework of lies collapses.
There is an escalation.
The sad ending: Luna kills herself.
At the end of the first episode, the highlight: Through the time travel agency “Plan B”, Flo is given the opportunity to travel back in time to prevent Luna’s death.
In her situation, between endless sadness, powerlessness, self-doubt, feelings of guilt, anger and the tormenting question of why, she goes along with it - and a short time later stands in her kitchen and is yelled at by her pubescent daughter - three weeks before Luna's death.
From now on, Flo is living her life again - but is that better?
Of course, like the main character, as a viewer you also have to get involved in this experiment.
It works because, on the one hand, director Isa Prahl (episodes 1 – 3) and her colleague Eoin Moore (episodes 4 – 6) can rely on the actors, who are all outstanding.
On the other hand, the power of the stories told.
The original for the series comes from the Canadian screenwriters Jean-François Asselin and Jacques Drolet.
Ingrid Kaltenegger and Mika Kallwass are responsible for the German adaptation.
And: The production is coming – how good!
– without science fiction elements.
Time travel, yes, but no big mumbo-jumbo that would have made everything ridiculous.
“Reset – How far do you want to go?” is a series that goes to your heartstrings – literally, by the way.
“I can tell you that about two weeks before the end of filming my kidneys were freaking out and hurting so much that I could hardly move,” says Katja Riemann in a ZDF interview.
People believe her.
The story doesn't leave you cold, even as a viewer.
One suffers with this Flo Bohringer, whose biography is used to discuss issues that concern many women today.
Can I be a good mother and still live out my own needs (job, relationship)?
To what extent am I responsible for ensuring that my child is happy?
Does that have to be me?
Can I even do that?
And what if the mother also needs to be cared for?
Reset doesn't give answers, it asks questions.
And they continue to have an effect.
“Reset – How far do you want to go?” is running in the media library from today and next week on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, at 8:15 p.m., as a double episode in the linear ZDF program
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Family selfie: from left
Father Jens (Thomas Loibl) and mother Flo (Katja Riemann) with their children Luna (Hannah Schiller) and Carlo (Paul Ahrens).
© Tina Krohn/ZDF