Dopamin

First I thought IMDb had moved the user review part to the Pro section. I mean, 3 weeks after premiere still none?

Well, I go first then. Actually, I can understand the lack of interest. The Danes are, by rights, famous for their TV-series; both drama and crime. But this one, aired on Discovery Plus, suffers hard from lacking a credible plot. The acting is okay, the script and the direction is not.

The sex scenes (not many nor very explicit) are probably the best ones. Which tells us something about the overall quality of the series.

Well, the story is about people working in a (fictitious) hospital in Aalborg, Denmark. Two of the main characters Maiken (nurse) and Jacob (aspiring surgeon) are in a relation that seems to be drying out. But that will change when a new nurse, Ida, arrives from Norway to join the crew. She is the third main. Very outgoing, good looking and seductive and very soon we are assured that she will have a great impact on Maikens and Jacobs relation. As well as she has on the everyday life (and death) in the hospital.

I will try not to spoil anything, but you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out there is something fundamentally wrong with this Ida from Norway. If you have googled the title you already know what that "wrong" is - yes, the description from the production company already tells most of the story. Maybe a sign of how much faith they put in it?

Generally decent acting, and sometimes the chemistry between Maiken (Amalie Dollerup) and Ida (Josefine Frida) sparkles, at least in the first few episodes. Jonathan Harboe as Jacob is also doing well. Josefine Frida is known from Norwegian blockbuster SKAM (Shame) in which she plays Noora, a much more complex and likeable character which also suits the actress better. And SKAM is of course a series far more watchable!

The season ending is ... unsatisfying, to say the least. If someone thought that kind of ending would make us want to see a second one, think again. It's just making me angry, realising I have spent four hours in vain.

One big question remain - why "Dopamin"? Yes it is a neurotransmitter, known as the "pleasure chemical" or "addiction hormone". But it is never mentioned in the series, nor by any means explained.

One warning, also. If you chose to watch the trailer, you will get to see more or less all the key scenes in this series. So please avoid. That is, if you really want to watch Dopamin. I recommend not to.

I have watched and reviewed "Seaside Hotel" and "Skam/Shame". I do love those TV series, but "Fatal Injections" is just a little interesting, maybe 35 % of 100 if you ask me.

I know that Amalie Dollerup and Josefine Frida Pettersen usually deliver a great performance. But I think that Maiken was a bit gullible while Ida was a controlling, manipulative, attention-seeking, seductive and unpleasant liar! She must have planned everything she was going to do!

But some scenes actually managed to make me feel sorry for Maiken, her fiancé Jacob and their co-worker Anette. Would I highly recommend this TV series to everyone? No, I honestly wouldn't.

Episodes of just twenty five minutes which would have meant fewer than four hours to watch them all. However, I value my life and my time more than to watch this tosh.

Unfortunately, the theme the series is so woefully tackling is something that has happened in several European countries as well as in the USA. The way it did it was so crass that I was flabbergasted.

I don't have a nose for whodunits. I'm hopeless at guessing the murderer/terrorist/kidnapper etc. However, the guilty party was blaring out in lights here, so obvious that it should have been impossible for the other nurses and doctors not to realise what was going on.

Was it worth watching for four hours to see how the miscreant was caught? Of course it wasn't. It would have made me incandescently angry that it took so long to work out what was going on.

I was looking forward to this series. Sounded interesting.

But starts off way to "fast" with the whole third part in the relationship.. No real depth. Feels very rushed with lack of creative and good writing.

Also very unlivable characters. Especially Maiken, she comes off as extremely boring and uncomfortable.

Hard to watch a grown woman hardly making any decisions whatsoever.

And also, who the heckkkkk is running the hospital? Too dramatic and unrealistic, with no real investigation to the deaths at the hospital.

And all in all everyone is portrayed as very naive and gullible, annoying to watch.

The plot is very common in most movies - like a typical lifetime movie.. the plot could at least have been more slow and not so rushed, between characters and between deaths.

This is the thing with movies and series like this, woman on woman relationships they all feel to unrealistic and too rushed. Makes me question if this is written by any woman at all?

Either way, the lack of depth and explanation makes It all fall extremely short and dull.

Predictably written and acted. But it did have potential. Too bad they didn't work on making it better or different.