If it wasnt for the cell phones in the series, the interiors and exteriors are stuck in the 70s communist ugly depressing regime. no changes since then. with the dead animal in the first episode and missing girl and miserable people all around with cold weather and with violent sex scenes it immediately proved to be a nordic noir imitation. the missing girl's mother did an ok job but the father was a bad choice. dusek is not a drama actor more of a comedy actor if actor at all. the raw unnecessary scenes with the prostutute were totally irrelevant to the story just to fit the genre. he himself admits to it in the interviews that he aint no actor. the whole background was a completely irrelevant to the story, just skip to the last eighth episode too many and youll see it was a story about kids being bad in a desperate environment with no proper guidance and hope for the future. czechs have so many better shows to offer, this one would be a failure. a similar show circus bukowsky is already ten times better story script then this one with many talented actor only one comedic actor bohumil klepl is again bad choice but still did much better job. there is so much that happens in the first episode you will be drawn into it especially when main character recounts his feelings to the viewer in first person making it autobiographical as well. also, as stories of many other characters in the circus setting makes it more interesting then a village called Pustina.
