One of the worst shows I know is the German adaptation of The IT Crowd. I thought I’d get some new nerd content to watch but boy was that bad. They mostly translated the dialogue word by word, so some jokes don’t make any sense. And they replaced the eccentric style with weird and bad acting. Watching it made me cringe.
And I didn’t enjoy Prison Break. I liked the idea and the premise and getting to know the characters… But then I lost interest later during the first season. Felt more like a chore to watch and the only thing I wanted to see is how they finally escape… I believe they did several more seasons of the show. Idk if other people enjoyed it, but I think they could have delivered more with the premise of the story.
Yes, people being pieces of shit is kind of a bummer. Speaking of The IT Crowd… Graham Linehan (the writer) also subsequently turned from comedy writer to anti-transgender activist. And his work shifted from award winning comedy to hateful online posts, fighting legal issues and writing his memoirs on how that cost him his career… I don’t get it, and it’s just unfortunate.
Yeah, I feel like there‘s a fascinating study into how indoctrination and radicalisation works in there somewhere. He‘s lost everything because he can‘t stop hating on a marginalised group. Cost him not just his career, but also his family, and recently saw him arrested.
German adaptation of The IT Crowd. I thought I’d get some new nerd content to watch but boy was that bad. They mostly translated the dialogue word by word
They did the same for the US pilot as well, absolutely terrible. Hell Moss is played by Moss, it’s so weird.
Oof. I completely forgot about that one. I mean I generally don’t get why things get replicated scene by scene… I don’t see any benefit in that. And then the cast is utterly unable to pull it off, except Richard Ayoade, who seems to got paid to repeat his acting pretty much exactly. Other than that the pacing is off all the time so the jokes don’t work either. And didn’t they know British humour and American one are different? I mean it’s pretty much the same language, but it should be pretty obvious you can’t just repeat it with an American accent and hope that’s going to achieve anything… It’s just very weird. Both the execution and the entire idea this would work.
Hehe. Seems the program directors at Sat1 felt the “Fremdscham” as well… They did the entire first season, though. Now that you mentioned it, seems they moved it to Sat.1 Comedy after 2 episodes and aired the remaining 4 episodes there.
I still think the premise is somewhat alright. The concept of doing adaptations has worked out well for shows like The Office or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? It’s just that people need to put in effort to do an adaptation… And Germans can do nerdy comedy, these days we have IT-Praxis Dr. Bauer, and that’s both an original idea(?) and hilarious.
Prison Break was supposed to be only 1 season of 13 episodes if I remember correctly. They expanded the season and then even made two more seasons. It’s a case of “know when to leave”. I bet the 13 episode season would have rocked. I enjoyed season 1 but the rest was total garbage.
One of the worst shows I know is the German adaptation of The IT Crowd. I thought I’d get some new nerd content to watch but boy was that bad. They mostly translated the dialogue word by word, so some jokes don’t make any sense. And they replaced the eccentric style with weird and bad acting. Watching it made me cringe.
And I didn’t enjoy Prison Break. I liked the idea and the premise and getting to know the characters… But then I lost interest later during the first season. Felt more like a chore to watch and the only thing I wanted to see is how they finally escape… I believe they did several more seasons of the show. Idk if other people enjoyed it, but I think they could have delivered more with the premise of the story.
Same kind of thing happened with That 70s Show. There was a British remake which used the same scripts, and it was awful. Really terrible.
It‘s the cast that made the original work. Just a shame that almost all of them turned out to be huge pieces of shit
I don’t think that show made it to where I live…
Yes, people being pieces of shit is kind of a bummer. Speaking of The IT Crowd… Graham Linehan (the writer) also subsequently turned from comedy writer to anti-transgender activist. And his work shifted from award winning comedy to hateful online posts, fighting legal issues and writing his memoirs on how that cost him his career… I don’t get it, and it’s just unfortunate.
Yeah, I feel like there‘s a fascinating study into how indoctrination and radicalisation works in there somewhere. He‘s lost everything because he can‘t stop hating on a marginalised group. Cost him not just his career, but also his family, and recently saw him arrested.
It‘s horrible, but also kind of fascinating.
They did the same for the US pilot as well, absolutely terrible. Hell Moss is played by Moss, it’s so weird.
Oof. I completely forgot about that one. I mean I generally don’t get why things get replicated scene by scene… I don’t see any benefit in that. And then the cast is utterly unable to pull it off, except Richard Ayoade, who seems to got paid to repeat his acting pretty much exactly. Other than that the pacing is off all the time so the jokes don’t work either. And didn’t they know British humour and American one are different? I mean it’s pretty much the same language, but it should be pretty obvious you can’t just repeat it with an American accent and hope that’s going to achieve anything… It’s just very weird. Both the execution and the entire idea this would work.
To be fair, absolutely nobody thought Das iTeam was good which is of course why it was cancelled after two episodes.
Hehe. Seems the program directors at Sat1 felt the “Fremdscham” as well… They did the entire first season, though. Now that you mentioned it, seems they moved it to Sat.1 Comedy after 2 episodes and aired the remaining 4 episodes there.
I still think the premise is somewhat alright. The concept of doing adaptations has worked out well for shows like The Office or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? It’s just that people need to put in effort to do an adaptation… And Germans can do nerdy comedy, these days we have IT-Praxis Dr. Bauer, and that’s both an original idea(?) and hilarious.
Prison Break was supposed to be only 1 season of 13 episodes if I remember correctly. They expanded the season and then even made two more seasons. It’s a case of “know when to leave”. I bet the 13 episode season would have rocked. I enjoyed season 1 but the rest was total garbage.