Apparently Bruno is an alpha male, an individual from a community who has the highest rank, who leads it.
In reality, he is a police officer from a small and indeterminate town or from a peripheral district of an unknown German city and with pretensions of being a
sheriff
with his
cowboy
hat and boots , dazzled by American popular culture, corpulent and with a young and shy assistant who He hasn't quite decided to come out of the closet.
The two will have to solve the case of the murder of Sugar Candy, a
drag queen
.
And that murder introduces them fully into that peculiar underworld led by Lady Lovelyn, owner and lady of the also peculiar local cabaret that, naturally, they will see with different looks and attitudes: that of the alpha male with a certain reluctance and that of the man in the closet, with heartfelt fascination.
A strange couple that lives between a harsh reality and unsatisfied desires at the same time that day-to-day life is collapsing the personal shells, that distance that instinctively tries to preserve the privacy of each one.
Boom Boom Bruno
and its six episodes of the season that HBO Max shows is a series in which, under a traditional police plot, it also develops some considerations about human behavior, its miseries and greatness, and in that sense it is worth highlighting the behavior of transformers , those individuals capable of overcoming the vileness of everyday life with the mere act of dressing and putting on makeup with the awareness that exaggeration is one of the fine arts.
Once transformed, the problems, at least momentarily, are left behind.
Bruno, a correct Ben Becker, will gradually assume that he is not as much of a leader as he thought, nor will his wishes for his second to achieve the presumed manhood that he attributes to himself be satisfied, and his shy assistant Mark, an also correct Vincent zur Linden, will win. in security, even in courage, by stopping hiding his homosexuality.
In the plot devised by Kerstin Laudascher and directed by Maurice Hübner, unlike most series that investigate murders in which the executioners usually have a traumatic past, the protagonists of
Boom Boom Bruno
live their personal traumas in the present.
But all the dissatisfactions will be diluted during the investigations until leading to an ending that, without reaching the sweetness of Frank Capra, leaves a good taste in the mouths of the spectators.
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