Mad Dogs
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Mad Dogs |
| Original title | Mad Dogs |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2011-2013 |
| length | 52 minutes |
| Episodes | 14 in 4 seasons |
| genre |
Thriller drama |
| idea | Cris Cole |
| production | Spencer Campbell |
| First broadcast | February 10, 2011 (UK) on Sky1 |
| German-language first broadcast |
September 7, 2011 on RTL Crime |
| occupation | |
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Mad Dogs is a British television series directed by Cris Cole . The first broadcast took place from February 10, 2011 on the British pay TV channel Sky1 . It was broadcast in German from September 7, 2011 on RTL Crime . The thriller series deals with the topic of male friendship.
In 2016, a US adaptation of the series of the same name was published by Amazon Video . Cole was also responsible for production here and took over part of the cast of the British original.
action
The main themes of the plot are friendship and getting older. Four friends in their late thirties are confronted with extreme situations when they meet again on the holiday island of Mallorca, which put their friendship to the test. The miniseries is kept in a dark comic style and contains a variety of black humor elements.
1st season
Baxter, Rick, Woody and Quinn want to spend a few days together with their childhood friend Alvo on Mallorca . While his friends have fared rather badly in the meantime, Alvo is a successful businessman with his own villa. The reunion of the friends turns out to be wet and happy fun. After two days of excessive drinking and partying, Alvo persuades the four friends to steal a boat and leave it in an unknown location. Harmless fun, as Alvo assures you. On the tour he reveals that he has bequeathed the villa to the four. When the five return from their tour, a short man wearing a Tony Blair mask enters the room and shoots Alvo. Then he rubs the gun on Baxter, contaminating it with his DNA . Then he issues the warning not to go to the police because he is the police. He leaves the property with flashing lights and a siren.
The four friends decide to bury Alvo and pretend nothing has happened. The next day, however, the policewoman María appears and asks about Alvo's whereabouts. The four say that Alvo is on the mainland. Rick remembers forgetting his video camera on the boat, and the four of them set off to get it back. On the boat, however, they meet drug dealers who exchange a suitcase full of drugs that are on board for a suitcase with three million euros . The four decide to get a rental car and keep the money in the trunk. When they return to the villa, they notice that a dog has dug Alvo. In a panic, they decide to first store it in a freezer and then bring it to the boat. When Maria comes, the friends have to improvise. Woody chops off Alvo's feet and head to fit in the freezer. Just in time, because María begins to interrogate the four individually. At the end of the episode, she discovers Rick's video camera, which is on a shelf.
The next morning, María reappears and shows Baxter a photo of a murdered drug lord. Apparently a drug deal had broken and Alvo would be involved. Behind it all would be the Serbian Mafia . The four begin to argue what should happen next. After this argument, in which they accuse each other of the mistakes of their past, they decide to bring Alvo's dismembered body onto the boat and make everything look like a broken drug deal. However, on the way they lose a foot that a dog takes with them. After they put the rest of the body on the boat, Rick and Baxter start an argument that ends with Rick being left alone and the others going back to the mansion. There the short man awaits them, who takes the three prisoners and tortures them. However, Rick comes back and overwhelms the short stature. The four first tie him up and sink him into the empty well. Then they debate whether they should go to the police. Outside the police station, however, they decide not to trust the police. They plan their escape with the money and persuade Rick's vacation friend Lottie to bring the money to the villa the next day. When they return to spend the last night in the villa, they find the short man in the freezer with the note "We warned you to go to the police".
After the four have buried the man's body, they see a flare gun fire. They flee to the villa; then the electricity and water are turned off. The next morning, María appears and explains that the Serbian mafia is looking for them. She offers her protection, which her friends refuse. In the house there are further arguments about the past of the four. After a solid argument, Baxter evaluates the video tapes from the surveillance cameras and her own cameras and comes to the conclusion that there is no Serbian Mafia and that María is a corrupt police officer. The four decide to face the police and record a farewell video for their families. After Lottie has brought in the money, María is already waiting for her in the villa. Quinn can take her off, but is shot. He threatens his friends with a gun, gives each of them some money and is left alone in the villa while the others drive to the airport. As he is cleaning himself in the swimming pool, a policeman appears with a gun drawn.
production
Mad Dogs was announced by Sky1 in May 2010. Cris Cole wrote the screenplay and Left Bank Pictures ( Wallander , Strike Back ) produced it. The actors Philip Glenister and Max Beesley were instrumental in creating the series. Both British Broadcasting Corporation and ITV had expressed an interest in the series, but Beesley and Glenister wanted the freedom that a pay-TV broadcaster gives them. Filming began in May 2010 on original locations in Sóller , Pollença and Palma on Mallorca. The director took Adrian Shergold . The series budget was three million euros. The Mallorcan Turism Foundation made 150,000 of them available. On January 12, 2011, three 30-second promos were aired for the first time, which have nothing to do with the actual plot, but should show the humor of the series. These were created by director David LaChapelle .
A second season was broadcast in the UK in early 2012. The third season will be broadcast in June 2013. It was also announced that the series should end with a two-part fourth season. In addition, there are talks about a possible spin-off with the title Mad Cats , which will then have an all-female main cast.
German-language first broadcast
The first season of the series ran in Germany on the pay-TV broadcaster RTL Crime. The first episode was shown on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011, followed by another episode on Wednesdays. The premiere of the second season took place on July 3, 2013. The broadcasting of the third season was announced by the broadcaster for November 13, 2013.
success
The broadcast was very successful in the UK. The first episode reached a total of 967,000 viewers and a rating of 4%. With repetition and second broadcast, each episode reached an average of 1.5 million viewers. As a result, the series reached number 11 of the most watched shows on Sky1. The series was also nominated for the BAFTA , but lost to Any Human Heart .
Web links
- Mad Dogs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Andrew Laughlin: LaChapelle creates Sky1 'Mad Dogs' promo. DigitalSpy, January 12, 2011, accessed October 5, 2011 .
- ^ Dominic Knight: Mad Dogs for Sky One. (No longer available online.) ATV Network, May 5, 2010, formerly the original ; Retrieved September 5, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Steve Busfield: Mad Dogs stars: we turned down BBC and ITV. The Guardian , August 3, 2011, accessed October 5, 2011 .
- ↑ Jason Deans: John Simm and Philip Glenister to star in Sky1's Mad Dogs. The Guardian, May 5, 2010, accessed October 5, 2011 .
- ^ Gavin Carver: Mad Dogs in Mallorca. (No longer available online.) SeeMallorca.com, January 31, 2011, archived from the original on March 10, 2011 ; Retrieved October 5, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Mad Dogs All Seasons. serienjunkies.de, accessed on November 18, 2012 .
- ↑ https://twitter.com/maxbeesley7/status/314763510414471170
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- ↑ Michael Brandes: "Mad Dogs": RTL Crime shows British gangster series. Wishlist.de, July 15, 2011, accessed October 5, 2011 .
- ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Mad Dogs: RTL Crime shows the 2nd season in July . Serienjunkies.de . April 30, 2013. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
- ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Mad Dogs: RTL Crime shows 3rd season from November . In: Serienjunkies.de . September 17, 2013. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
- ↑ Josh Halliday: Mad Dogs grabs 967,000 viewers. The Guardian, February 11, 2011, accessed October 5, 2011 .
- ↑ Barb search query. (No longer available online.) Barb.co.uk, archived from the original on April 13, 2012 ; Retrieved October 6, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Television Awards Nominees and Winners in 2011. (No longer available online.) BAFTA , archived from the original on June 12, 2011 ; Retrieved October 5, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
