![]() The joy of Clarkson is that he’s such an amiable TV natural, you’d still be glued to the screen if his next venture was about training to be an accountant. And I love the amusing gimmicks, like the character Gerald, who pops up now and again to mumble in a rural Oxfordshire accent so broad that even young Kaleb (who has never been on a train, and thinks anyone born further away than Chipping Norton is foreign) can’t understand him, and even though in real life he is perfectly intelligible. I mean, you can hardly just roll the cameras in the hope that something amusing happens that you can shape into a story later. Yes, I know it’s probably all storyboarded and fake, as “reality” TV necessarily is. But at least it’s different, beguilingly different, and I’m hooked.Īs I am also on the ever wonderful Clarkson’s Farm. I can’t work out whether or not he’s meant to be sympathetic but he just comes across to me as a total idiot, whom you’d have preferred Kleo quickly to dispatch so as to put us all out of our misery. ![]() Kleo’s nemesis - one of them anyway - is a bumbling, obsessive West German detective called Sven (Dimitrij Schaad). The same applies to some of the characters. It’s at once realistic and fantastical with a perverse sense of humor, which I’m sure works for its local audience - the scene where Kleo goes to the Majorcan retreat of her next targets and pretends to be a blousy, rich West German, say - but is mystifying if you’re English. ![]() I expect there must be a very long German word for it. How you’d define their peculiar tone I’m not quite sure. And what I like about German series such as Kleo is that they’re so damned German. What makes far eastern dramas like South Korea’s Squid Game so enticing is that the culture is so different you never know what the televisual rules about likely plot events are. For example, what made the Turkish sci-fi series Hot Skull for me wasn’t so much the so-so plotline as the early Doctor Who aesthetic and all the things it taught you about the Turks, like how much they value smoking, traditional food and elderly mothers. This is what I like about foreign drama series, by which I mean ones made outside the Anglosphere. Yes, there is gore, but a) the people she executes frankly have it coming to them and b) it’s all so tongue-in-cheek that it never feels too real. This is certainly preferable to the lesbian, torture-porn aesthetic of Killing Eve, which rubs your face in the Villanelle character’s violence. you still think she’s a lovely, sweet girl you’d happily have as your daughter-in-law. ![]() Kleo Straub is very charmingly played by Jella Haase in such a way that no matter how many people she brutally kills - by gunshot, fugu fish poison, an explosive jacket, cake, etc. ![]()
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