The story is great and provides many great and realistic scenes. Great ending. This is Stockholm today, huge start up scene and heavy gang violence.
Have to give it to the main stars: really impressed with Alexander Abdallah, Evin Ahmad, Ali Arak, Dada Fungula, Yussra El Abdouni and Z. E. The acting of Z. E was a great surprise. I was worried that he wouldn't cut it, but he did the job well done.
The camera angles and camera work is the best that Sweden has ever seen. Beautiful work!
But there has been way too many shortcuts taken in this series which drastically takes it down from a solid 9.
The small stuff that you notice when watching is eyes moving underneath the eyelid of corpses in the morgue. Like really?! How could you not do a re-take of the scene?? Some smaller roles are casted completely wrong. Those actors are not cutting it.
But it is the lack of a good soundtrack that is what is killing it for me...
The soundtrack of the original trilogy was what made Snabba cash, the Snabba cash we know today. The cynical Latina sound was heavily connected to the cynical story in the films. A starred eye youth heading into a world he's unfamiliar with...
Without a Soundtrack, the series fails to create heavy tension at times (the acting of the main stars made up for it most of the times).
They could have created a soundtrack of either newly created rap specifically for the series (like Top Boy) or a classic sound track of film music.
Here they took some 5-10 years old Swedish YouTube rap music of low quality and "club rap". Incredibly naive decision which makes this series not stand out...
Easy to fix for next season though. Really sad to see that it is production mistakes that is what is bringing the rating down. And even more sad because it is Netflix... can't they handle productions?
Have to give it to the main stars: really impressed with Alexander Abdallah, Evin Ahmad, Ali Arak, Dada Fungula, Yussra El Abdouni and Z. E. The acting of Z. E was a great surprise. I was worried that he wouldn't cut it, but he did the job well done.
The camera angles and camera work is the best that Sweden has ever seen. Beautiful work!
But there has been way too many shortcuts taken in this series which drastically takes it down from a solid 9.
The small stuff that you notice when watching is eyes moving underneath the eyelid of corpses in the morgue. Like really?! How could you not do a re-take of the scene?? Some smaller roles are casted completely wrong. Those actors are not cutting it.
But it is the lack of a good soundtrack that is what is killing it for me...
The soundtrack of the original trilogy was what made Snabba cash, the Snabba cash we know today. The cynical Latina sound was heavily connected to the cynical story in the films. A starred eye youth heading into a world he's unfamiliar with...
Without a Soundtrack, the series fails to create heavy tension at times (the acting of the main stars made up for it most of the times).
They could have created a soundtrack of either newly created rap specifically for the series (like Top Boy) or a classic sound track of film music.
Here they took some 5-10 years old Swedish YouTube rap music of low quality and "club rap". Incredibly naive decision which makes this series not stand out...
Easy to fix for next season though. Really sad to see that it is production mistakes that is what is bringing the rating down. And even more sad because it is Netflix... can't they handle productions?