Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 13, 2022 17:17:39 GMT -8
The Simple Heist. This is a Swedish comedy/heist series that ran from 2017-2019. They have both seasons on Acorn TV.
This is another series that probably couldn't be created by an American production company because of the need to cater to bitchy, entitlement-minded, uptight, humorless females. However, they seem to have retained a sense of humor in Sweden.
Lotta Tejle and Sissela Kyle play two aggrieved, entitlement-minded females who blame men, in general, for their troubles. (And they obviously poke fun at this aspect of feminism.) A series of circumstances leaves both in a financial bind.
Kyle plays Dr. Cecilia Stensson who practices in Kalmar, Sweden. Her friend, Jenny Bengtsson (Tejle), is a schoolteacher in the same town. Dr. Stensson learns of a plan for a heist from one of her terminal patients. He can't carry it out so he gives the idea to Dr. Stensson. The plan is to knock over the main branch of the Stockholm Bank.
Tone is everything in a series such as this. Will it become as ridiculous as Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard in The Mothers-In-Law or will the humor remain more subdued and, dare I say, sustainable?
Unfortunately, at about the fourth (of six total) episodes, the wheels come off a bit and the plot becomes just a bit too outrageous. But given the strong cast of characters, it does more or less all hang together. The villains (there are a couple plots within plots) are suitably villainous. And the cops who are on the trail of the bank robbers are dryly funny.
So although we sometimes delve too far into antics akin to The Mothers-In-Law (thanks, in large part, to the over-the-top performance by Tejle), the overall writing and cast of characters is good enough to make the plot work until the end….of season one, anyway.
This is another series that probably couldn't be created by an American production company because of the need to cater to bitchy, entitlement-minded, uptight, humorless females. However, they seem to have retained a sense of humor in Sweden.
Lotta Tejle and Sissela Kyle play two aggrieved, entitlement-minded females who blame men, in general, for their troubles. (And they obviously poke fun at this aspect of feminism.) A series of circumstances leaves both in a financial bind.
Kyle plays Dr. Cecilia Stensson who practices in Kalmar, Sweden. Her friend, Jenny Bengtsson (Tejle), is a schoolteacher in the same town. Dr. Stensson learns of a plan for a heist from one of her terminal patients. He can't carry it out so he gives the idea to Dr. Stensson. The plan is to knock over the main branch of the Stockholm Bank.
Tone is everything in a series such as this. Will it become as ridiculous as Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard in The Mothers-In-Law or will the humor remain more subdued and, dare I say, sustainable?
Unfortunately, at about the fourth (of six total) episodes, the wheels come off a bit and the plot becomes just a bit too outrageous. But given the strong cast of characters, it does more or less all hang together. The villains (there are a couple plots within plots) are suitably villainous. And the cops who are on the trail of the bank robbers are dryly funny.
So although we sometimes delve too far into antics akin to The Mothers-In-Law (thanks, in large part, to the over-the-top performance by Tejle), the overall writing and cast of characters is good enough to make the plot work until the end….of season one, anyway.