lunalight-03618 I wonder if Deon Meyer actually had anything to do with this series? He's a brilliant author and I love his work. This series does his body of work no justice whatsoever : the characters are hideously miscast,the storyline is erratic, and it's quite excruciating to watch. A waste of money to produce and a waste of time to watch.Fake or exaggerated accents abound, the characters are overworked to the point of caricature. Whose idea was it to cast Continental actors? A South African author, South African location, a South African talent agent, filmed in South Africa....and we have a bunch of Germans trying very hard to sound like South Africans but making a total hash of it.Very very sad, and no credit to Deon Meyer's work at all. 😣

nova1516 I have to say that I was absolutely bound by this new crime mini-series. Of course it is not reinventing the wheel, but it tells an exciting story in a very dynamic way. There are several plot lines / crime cases connected, and the suspense is increasing bit by bit until the surprising finale, when all the loose ends come together. Maybe a bit conventional at some points, but quite entertaining! The drinking and overweight police captain, mourning after his dead wife, surely is a well-known character in the crime genre. Anyway, I think the role is very well interpreted by Seim, who gives it all the pessimism and self-doubts it needs. I really liked the various characters and the multiculti cast - especially the Polish Dorocinski playing the junkie coming clean. The hair and make-up stylists may have overdone their work a bit with the female actors… you won't see these loads of eyeshadow and rouge in a U.S. or European series. The city of Cape Town looks stunning in this show and the camera work is really high-quality! Well done altogether.

papageno-66704 Based on Deon Meyer's novel "Dead before Dying", this series should have had enough going for it to come out tops. Unfortunately due to a rather disastrous screen-play and some extremely amateur acting it has become a prime belly flopper. The two actors in the main roles are Norwegian and Austrian. Both attempt to imitate South African accents (and very red-necked ones too). Kodjoe is probably more successful but Seim never manages to get rid of his Norwegian accent and his line about growing up in Goodwood was just not credible. Both of them seemed to be in the wrong country, wrong series. And that is where the credibility issue of this series begins and falls. Continuity in the camera work was another problem. Constant interpolation of random shots of areas in and around Cape Town were constantly thrown in for no reason and only served to make this confused screen-play even more nonsensical. Most of the South African acting is awfully staid and artificial (the embarrassing scene with the neighbors commenting on Drew Wilson's homosexuality was a typical example). Good camera work (Cape Town is always wonderful to look at) but the screen play is confused, drawn out and suspense is almost non-existent.

vus29 I so wanted to enjoy this "police drama" or mini series, i still don't know how to classify. After watching each episode of this 6 part drama countless times because it is so good at inducing sleep, I finally deduced what i think it was supposed to be about.2 detective, 1 has a drink problem, his wife was murdered/ suicide??? and his sister raped. 2nd detective has a brother out on probation who has a little daughter. After that is a haze of girls being murdered, German stasi, south African white gangsters and a female therapist and something about mind control. This drama did cure my insomnia because i would start watching and episode and 10 minutes later i am asleep. It is slow, predictable, contrived and downright boring that if it wasn't so good at inducing sleep i would have abandoned it by the second episode.Maybe it is directed at white south africans or those from Cape town? Maybe it is dubbed from Afrikaans and a lot, especially the humour has been lost in translation? There is a big finale in the 6th episode when all is revealed. I thank this series for giving me a few good nights.