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If you've seen one episode of 'Badehotellet', you've seen them all.
It is so easy to write a negative review of 'Badehotellet', which is now in its sixth season serving fireplace TV in the January darkness.
The style is over the top, the humor cut out of cardboard, and there isn't really anything in the action to make you wait with anticipation for next Monday.
Still, it works as it should. It's cozy, the actors are lovable, and who wouldn't want to share a kiss with Lars Ranthe's proletarian director grosser Madsen, while Jens Jacob Tychsen's narcissistic Mr. Weyse sits in the background at the piano?
Laura Kjær is new at Badehotellet as the maid Nana.
Laura Kjær is new at Badehotellet as the maid Nana. Photo: TV 2 / DENMARK © (copyright TV 2)
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I'm a fan of 'Badehotellet' for what it is, and as a fan I allow myself to be a little disappointed with the opening of the sixth season, where the action is now set five years ahead in time in 1939 with the Second World War looming on the horizon.
It was just like nothing really happened. As in at all.
Sir. Weyse struggles a little with stage fright, Amanda stresses over an advertising campaign, and then the maid Edith tumbles around as the new manager of the hotel, as Fie has moved to England.
Only at the end is there a bit of drama in the form of the brother of Sibylle (a character from the first season, ed.), who is imprisoned in Austria because he is Jewish. It will probably unfold more in future episodes.
Amalie Dollerup and Lars Bom are reunited in Badehotellet after they were father and daughter in Strisser on Samsø in the 90s.
Amalie Dollerup and Lars Bom are reunited in Badehotellet after they were father and daughter in Strisser on Samsø in the 90s. Photo: TV 2 / DENMARK © (copyright TV 2)
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A few new characters saw the light of day in the first episode, of which a 'forbidden' romance between the new maid Nana and Mrs Frigh's now grown-up son Leslie (played by Lars Mikkelsen and Anette Støvelbæk's son Lue, ed.) is clearly set up.
Nana seems like a cute new girl on the team with a bone in her nose, while the Leslie character is a bit tiresomely vague and too much in her mother's skirts. Here you understand when grosser Madsen kicks him a little.
It was a fun gimmick to reunite the 'Strisser på Samsø' family with a guest role for Lars Bom as tourist manager, and his prophetic joke that 1940 will be the year when the Germans get their eyes on Denmark worked well in the ignorant spirit of 'Badehotellet'.
The 'Badehotellet' will probably get the usual high viewing figures, but if we want to avoid falling asleep in front of the television, the pace must be increased next time.
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