At the end of the big series "Under suspicion".
- TV criticism of the ZDF crime series "Under suspicion: Eva's last course"
- Last case after 30 episodes
- Senta Berger investigates again as Dr. Prohacek
It is worth noting that on Saturday evening on ZDF - after the premiere on Arte last autumn - one of the most streamlined and darkest of the long German crime series will make it to the finals.
"Under suspicion", with 30 episodes since 2002, was always tailored to the now 78-year-old Senta Berger , whose age may also be the only reason that she did not want to continue. No series has lost itself less. Senta Berger, who is completely irreplaceable at this point, is not playing Miss Marple, but an official, which she herself found increasingly unreliable. The audience, however, had no reason to Prohacek at some point didn't believe everything anyway. Integrity is usually not conveyed in such a pathetic way in crime thrillers, loneliness is not so subtle, energy is not so understated and jokes are not as subtle.
"Under suspicion: Eva's last course": The scoundrel as a boss
Also irreplaceable is Prohacek's corrupt chief Reiter: Actor Gerd Anthoff (now also 73 years old) - in conjunction with brilliant screenplays - managed to combine the brilliant piece of penetrating joviality with the uptight of evil and the distorted image of a thoroughly corrupt, light-shy, to give vain, absolutely shameful specs an authentic face. A scoundrel, but one of us.
It sounds idiotic that the department of internal investigation, of all things, doesn't stink from the head, but is touchingly direct criminal. But "under suspicion" did not present it as a blatant conspiracy, but as a fine sausage. Sometimes you could forget it and enjoy individual Reiter moves, sometimes the heroine and the scoundrel stood on one side.
At the same time, it was always very civil. It is ingenious, for example, that Reiter and Prohacek used to do so from an old age ("Klaus", "Eva"), while for the third corner of the triangle, Rudolf Krause, it always stayed with "Mr. Langner". He was a grumpy disappointment, even if the cause, his listlessness to work in this department at all, was lost in sight. As an increasingly rider-hating Rumpelstiltskin, he formed the perfect background for the Reiter-Prohacek duel.
"Under suspicion: Eva's last course": The plot ties in with the first episode of 2002
"Under suspicion: Eva's last course", ZDF, Saturday, March 28th, 2020, 8.15pm
The last episode, "Eva's last course", written by Stefan Holtz and Florian Iwersen, directed by Andreas Herzog, once again spreads out in solemn, but also broken melancholy and immense sharpness what this was about: the lurking and the striking with a closed one and open visor. The story also comes to a conclusion, not just because Dr. Prohacek retires. By the way, the quiet embarrassment of farewell parties - including a remarkable carrot cake scene - cannot be conveyed more sadly and at the same time more casually.
The plot actually ties in with the first episode of 2002, "Covert Game". The bitterness of the events, which - as we now understand with full force - stood overwhelmed for 17 years in the room is great and has a tragic dimension. The harmlessness - Mr. Langner gives Dr. Prohacek a cooking class - serve a relaxation that you also need.
