Wir sind die Welle

The leftist political correctness at it's best. If you want to see some17 y.o. so called activists shoving in your mouth all the modern left wing agenda this is your series. For the rest it's just another oversimplified ,full of black or white,my way or the highway,cliches.

I really enjoyed this show. Probably aimed at a teen audience, given the age of the majority of the cast, but I found none of the dumbing down, over-simplification, or straight out patronising prevalent in that genre.

It's a short enough show - six episodes - to easily watch back-to-back, which I did with a short overnight break halfway through ... more like a long film than a series, and not "too long".

One very minor thing, which I didn't even twig until halfway through the last episode, and isn't a complaint just an observation: There are quite a few scenes with newspaper, or more often online text, articles in the background. (Probably weirdly) I like to freeze frame and read these articles when I'm really into what I'm watching. It's a German show, presented in German, so I had to rely on subtitles to understand the dialogue. It took me a long, long time to realise that all the articles were in English. I haven't known any German teens for a very long time but I'm fairly sure, gifted as many of them are in my own mother tongue, they'd be more likely to go for things written in their own language. (BTW, for anyone reading this before watching the show, the articles don't add anything of import, so you're not missing out if you don't ape my own eccentricity.)

I really if there's any logics behind this series.. everyone can change from one character to another just if the directors want it to be, and they don't have their principle, at all. And the whole storyline had so many bugs. I mean, don't the filmmakers of this series somehow live in the real world? Even a bit?

It has it faults, the down on his luck copper is a bit stereotypical but on the whole this is a pretty good series that has humour - which is always a plus - very likeable characters and a decent premise. Overall I would call it Fight Club for the - almost 2020's - which is a positive and I very much look forward to the next series.

So first of all. ,Wir sind die Welle' is not really to compare with the movie ,Die Welle'. This series is about making difference and to fight against everything wrong in this world.

I personally, as a german citizen, am not a fan of the german movie industry. But after I saw ,Dark' on Netflix, everything changed. Because of ,Dark's good quality in production, I gave this series a try. And I must say, I'm impressed. The production quality on this thing... unbelievable. 4K, good scenery, great lightning, good actors and I did not cringe while watching. This is extremely good for german quality. The music/sounds were very well picked as well.

Well why did I give this series only 5/10? It's because of the story. First of all: I really hoped to see a series that extends the movie, which is not the case. The story in the series is just bad, really bad. The idea behind it is good, but the implementation is just bad. So clumpy and not logical sometimes. I really can't describe it. It was just bad, and thats very unfortunate, because the production team did so good.

This leads me to another point: Because of the bad story, this series did not get any fame and no viewers at all. This is also bad, because I'm 100% certain that there will be no second season. And I think many viewers will see this as a waste of time, because season one has an open ending (which makes sense because the director wanted to force a second season).

I think it was a nice experiment, very impressed with the protagonist as an actor, he did very well and the production on this is insane, but the story is not to be spoken about. I personally liked watching the series and I would watch the second season as well I think, if there were going to be one.