Blockbustaz
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Blockbustaz |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 2014, 2016–2018 |
| Production company |
NEUESUPER GmbH & Co. KG |
| length | about 30 minutes |
| Episodes | 19 in 2+ seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Comedy series |
| Director |
Jan Markus Linhof Cüneyt Kaya (from episode 14) |
| idea | Niklas Hoffmann Rafael Parente |
| script | Niklas Hoffmann Rafael Parente Alexis Weinlein Benjamin Seiler René Schweitzer Jakob Schreier Andreas Schaap |
| production | Simon Amberger Korbinian Fragrances Rafael Parente |
| music |
Eko Fresh Ismail Boulaghmal |
| camera | Eddie Schneidermeier |
| First broadcast | August 28, 2014 on ZDFneo |
| occupation | |
Blockbustaz (subtitle: Willkommen in der Hood ) is a German comedy series that is broadcast by ZDFneo . The pilot episode aired on August 28, 2014. The first season followed in 2016, the second season was first broadcast in 2018.
action
The unemployed Sol lives in Cologne - Chorweiler in a typical high-rise estate and is waiting to get started as a rapper . Sol mostly lives in the daytime and hangs out with his friend Hardy instead of looking for work. On his 30th birthday he is shown in front of the door by his mother and moves with his girlfriend Jessica into an apartment two floors below, which creates the initial situation for the series.
characters
- Sol Berger is 30 years old, unemployed and has achieved little in his life. He plays Playstation , smoking pot and rapping. He's never at a loss for an excuse, but rarely gets away with it.
- Jessica is Sol's girlfriend. She tries to keep them afloat with several part-time jobs. Among other things, she works in a fast food shop and helps older neighbors. In the last episode of the first season she separates from Sol and from the second season she works as a secretary for Mr. Küppers. She also takes care of her younger sister Lisa and her two-year-old nephew Jeremy, as her father is constantly drunk.
- Hardy , the son of a prostitute , is Sol's best buddy and owns a pizzeria on the ground floor. He improves his earnings by stolen goods . He grows hemp plants on the skyscraper roof .
- Madita Berger is the mother of Sol. She often cooks for the young couple. She is also unemployed and trying to find a man online. So she gets to know a policeman who moves in with her.
- Ronald Meissner is the father of Jessica and Lisa. He's constantly drunk and mortgages Jeremy himself for a beer.
- Lisa is the 17-year-old sister of Jessica, who fully fulfills the stereotype "Hartz4-brat": she chews gum all the time, speaks in ghetto slang and knows no complicated words. Her dream job is a prostitute.
- Jeremy is Lisa's son, who couldn't speak his first words until he was two years old. At first, everyone thinks he's Jessica and Lisa's little brother.
- Mr. Bulut is the pushy Turkish caretaker of the block. He likes to play the tough guy. At home, his German wife, who has converted to Islam , has her pants on, and his son Deniz has little respect for him and steals the cell phones of his classmates.
- Mr. Küppers is the property manager of the social housing block. He speaks in a Cologne dialect.
- Hella is Madita's neighbor and friend who makes her living by phone sex.
occupation
| actor | role | Main role (episodes) |
Supporting role (episodes) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eko Fresh | Sol Berger | 1.01– | |
| Joyce Ilg | Jessica | 1.01– | |
| Sascha Reimann (aka Ferris MC ) | Hardy | 1.01– | |
| Martina Eitner-Acheampong | Madita Berger | (Pilot) | 1.01– |
| Aykut Kayacik | Mr. Bulut | (Pilot) | 1.01– |
| Andreas Hoppe | Ronald Meissner | 1.01– | |
| Cosima Henman | Lisa | 1.01– | |
| Kida Khodr Ramadan | Volkan | 1.01– | |
| Inge Maux | Hella | 1.01– | |
| Levin Allin | Deniz Bulut | 1.01– | |
| Tina Ruland | Barbara Bulut | 1.01– |
Production and broadcast
The pilot episode was broadcast on August 28, 2014 as part of the ZDFneo TVLab 2014 . The viewers can vote on which format should be produced. After Blockbustaz received the most votes, the production of a season was announced on August 29, 2014. The film was shot in Cologne from the end of July to the beginning of September in 2015. From March 22, 2016, the first season was broadcast on ZDFneo, which was seen by an average of 300,000 viewers when it was first broadcast.
On July 12, 2016, the production of a second season was confirmed, which was originally scheduled to air in 2017. In May 2017 it was announced that the second season would consist of twelve episodes and will be filmed until August 2017. August 11, 2017 was announced on the official Facebook page of the series as the last day of shooting.
Episode list
| Season | Number of episodes | German-language first broadcast | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | ||
| 0 | 1 | August 28, 2014 | August 28, 2014 |
| 1 | 6th | March 22, 2016 | April 26, 2016 |
| 2 | 12 | March 27, 2018 | June 12, 2018 |
Season 0
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast D | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Welcome to the Hood (pilot episode) | 28 Aug 2014 | Jan Markus Linhof | Niklas Hoffmann |
| Madita tells her son Sol on his 30th birthday to move out so that her new boyfriend, whom she met online, can live with her. She has already scheduled a visit to the apartment for him. In the end, Sol realizes that having their own apartment is advantageous for both of them, and moves with his girlfriend Jessica into an apartment two floors below his mother's. Unfortunately, this is too late for Madita because she has fallen out with her Internet acquaintance. | |||||
season 1
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast D | Director | script | Guest star | Quota ( ZDFneo ) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | job | March 22, 2016 | Jan Markus Linhof | Niklas Hoffmann | - | 280,000 |
| The rent has to be paid and right now the employment agency is discovering Sol's false incapacity for work and removing it. Sol has to take on a temporary job as a janitor in the block, but he breaks more than he repairs. Since Ronald pledged Jeremy against beer and Jessica and Sol are now working, the ball pit of a Swedish furniture store has to serve as a daycare center. | |||||||
| 3 | 2 | parents | March 29, 2016 | Jan Markus Linhof | Niklas Hoffmann | Jürgen Drews , Leslie Malton | 90,000 |
| The youth welfare office wants to put Jeremy and Lisa in a home. Jessica and Sol should show within a week that they can take over the guardianship for both. Of course, this goes wrong and the supervisor comes earlier unannounced. After Lisa bribes him with sex, the two are allowed to stay with Jessica and Sol. Meanwhile, Hardy receives a visit from his mother ( Leslie Malton ), a noble prostitute. Before she secretly disappears again, he learns that Jürgen Drews is his father. | |||||||
| 4th | 3 | insurance | Apr 5, 2016 | Jan Markus Linhof | Niklas Hoffmann | Moritz Bleibtreu | 360,000 |
| Sol has a toothache. He cannot afford the treatment, but Hardy lends him a private health insurance card that he has bought to have gold teeth made. The card makes the rounds in the block and Sol chases after it. It turns out that it belongs to the "Alphatier" ( Moritz Bleibtreu ), a record boss and Sol's idol. To pay off their debts, Hardy and Sol must give him all of their hemp plants. | |||||||
| 5 | 4th | Muckibude | Apr 12, 2016 | Jan Markus Linhof | Niklas Hoffmann | Hans Sarpei , Frederick Lau | 280,000 |
| A new athlete ( Hans Sarpei ) appears in the gym , steals the show from Sol and makes Hardy an enthusiastic athlete. When Sol finds out that the new ballet dancer is, he wants to discredit him. This fails and ends in a boxing match between the two of them. Sol is knocked out with the first blow. Meanwhile, her new boyfriend, a police officer, moves in with Madita. | |||||||
| 6th | 5 | dog | April 19, 2016 | Jan Markus Linhof | Niklas Hoffmann | Frederick Lau | 340,000 |
| Volkan presses an aggressive attack dog on Sol to take care of, but it runs away. The search causes some hustle and bustle in the block. Before they can find the dog, out of fear they cheer Volkan under another tame dog that they stole from a family - in the end the family goes home with the attack dog. In the meantime, Lisa gets an intimate tattoo. But when a picture of her tattoo makes the rounds in all networks, she wants to jump from the skyscraper. Jessica can dissuade her with Jeremy. | |||||||
| 7th | 6th | Raid | Apr 26, 2016 | Jan Markus Linhof | Niklas Hoffmann | Frederick Lau , Celo & Abdi | 460,000 |
| The health department closes Hardy's pizzeria. Volkan ensures that this does not happen, which is why Hardy is in his debt and is supposed to break into a game library with him. Sol gets his driver's license because he's jealous of the caretaker who drives Jessica home several times. To prevent Jessica from working for Küppers in the future, he gets his mother to apply for the position. Madita gets the job, but Jessica has already quit her current job. During his driving test, Sol becomes the burglar's getaway car driver. But the loot is secured with a paint bomb, which ends it all with Sol, Hardy, Ronald and Volkan going to jail. | |||||||
season 2
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast D | Director | script | Guest star | Quota ( ZDFneo ) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8th | 1 | comeback | March 27, 2018 | Jan Markus Linhof | Niklas Hoffmann, Rafael Parente | Katy Karrenbauer | 350,000 |
| 9 | 2 | Billy goat | 3rd April 2018 | Jan Markus Linhof | Niklas Hoffmann, Rafael Parente | - | - |
| 10 | 3 | Parents Initiative | April 10, 2018 | Jan Markus Linhof | Niklas Hoffmann, Rafael Parente | Nadja Becker , Tim Wilde | 390,000 |
| 11 | 4th | fate | 17th April 2018 | Jan Markus Linhof | Alexis Weinlein | - | - |
| 12 | 5 | Security | April 24, 2018 | Jan Markus Linhof | Benjamin Seiler | - | 250,000 |
| 13 | 6th | farewell | April 31, 2018 | Jan Markus Linhof | René Schweitzer, Alexis Weinlein | Sami Nasser | - |
| 14th | 7th | Lottoking | May 8, 2018 | Cüneyt Kaya | Niklas Hoffmann, Jakob Schreier | Giwar Hajabi , Afrob , Pit Bukowski | 380,000 |
| 15th | 8th | wedding | 15th May 2018 | Cüneyt Kaya | Niklas Hoffmann, Andreas Schaap | Sido , Oliver Konietzny , Burak Yiğit | - |
| 16 | 9 | talent | May 22, 2018 | Cüneyt Kaya | Benjamin Seiler | - | - |
| 17th | 10 | Citizen Master | 29 May 2018 | Cüneyt Kaya | Alexis Weinlein | Frederick Lau | 390,000 |
| 18th | 11 | cocaine | 5th June 2018 | Cüneyt Kaya | Niklas Hoffmann | Pit Bukowski | - |
| 19th | 12 | sperm | June 12, 2018 | Cüneyt Kaya | Niklas Hoffmann | Sido , Livia Matthes , Steffen Will , Robert Dölle | - |
DVD release
On May 20, 2016, the first season was released on DVD. A soundtrack CD and the pilot are included as a bonus.
reception
The reviews were mixed:
“[...] Kitsch is really not 'Blockbustaz', rather poverty pornography with imaginary canned laughter. [...] The concept of casting two non-actors with Eko Fresh and Ferris MC [...] and thus creating the opposite of artificiality does not always work. But also Joyce Ilg as Jessica and Andreas Hoppe as a drinking father struggle with the awkward scripts by Niklas Hoffmann, which leave it at the intrusive alleged amusement. "
- Fabian Wolff : Column for the first episode on Spiegel Online
“The best thing about this over-the-top environment is the insults. [...] Especially in exposing the German civil service, the series develops an undreamt-of love for exaggerating clichés. [...] The series is content with the next cheap joke. She doesn't care about the living conditions shown. "
- Daniel Gerhardt : Column for the first episode on Zeit Online
“'Blockbustaz' offers comedy with lots of slapstick elements. [...] The format is specially tailored to young people, one laugh follows the other. Sols 'this, that' at the end of every second sentence sounds a lot like forced youth slang. In return, Cosima Henman shines as Jessica's sister Lisa with the authentic imitation of an immature problem student from the block. "
- Anna-Lena Schild : Column for the first episode in Stern
Web links
- Blockbustaz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blockbustaz at Fernsehserien.de
- Blockbustaz on ZDFneo
- Blockbustaz on Facebook
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uwe Mantel: Eko Fresh sitcom “Blockbustaz” goes into series. In: DWDL.de . August 29, 2014. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Alexander Krei: TVLab winner “Blockbustaz” is created in Cologne. In: DWDL.de . July 28, 2015. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Blockbustaz at crew united . Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d Uwe Mantel: “Blockbustaz”: ZDFneo sitcom ends with a record. In: DWDL.de . March 23, 2016. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
- ↑ ZDFneo shoots the second “Blockbustaz” season with Eko Fresh. In: DerWesten.de . July 12, 2016. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Big sitcom offensive at ZDFneo. In : quotemeter.de . May 9, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Sidney Schering: “Blockbustaz” starts with potential for expansion. In : quotemeter.de . March 23, 2016. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Alexander Krei: Horst Lichter easily overtakes "Storm of Love". In: DWDL.de . March 30, 2016. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Uwe Mantel: Again nothing to get for RTL, ProSieben and Sat.1. In: DWDL.de . April 20, 2016. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Manuel Nunez Sanchez: No comparison to the primetime crime thriller: "Blockbustaz" starts poorly in season two. In : quotemeter.de . March 28, 2018, accessed August 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Timo Niemeier: ZDFneo easily ironed out the big brother's mini-dent. In: DWDL.de . April 11, 2018, accessed August 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Uwe Mantel: ZDF scores with "Anstalt", "Blockbustaz" causes problems. In: DWDL.de . April 25, 2018, accessed August 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Alexander Krei: First ESC semifinals significantly weaker than 2017. In: DWDL.de . May 9, 2018, accessed August 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Uwe Mantel: "So! Muncu!" with top value, Tele 5 trumps with horror. In: DWDL.de . May 30, 2018, accessed August 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Fabian Wolff: Lower-class sitcom "Blockbustaz" Pretty poor, your humor In: Spiegel Online March 22, 2016, accessed on September 25, 2017
- ^ Daniel Gerhardt: "Blockbustaz": Von Beruf Hurensohn In: Zeit Online March 22, 2016, accessed on September 25, 2017
- ↑ Anna-Lena Schildt: "Blockbustaz": Joyce and Eko from the block In: Stern March 22, 2016, accessed on September 25, 2017