Sick note

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Television series
German title Sick note
Original title Sick note
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Year (s) 2017-2018
Production
company		 King Bert Productions
length Episode 1: 44 minutes; Episodes 2–14: 24 minutes
Episodes 14 in 2 seasons ( list )
genre Comedy
Director Matt Lipsey
idea Nat Saunders
James Serafinowicz
script Nat Saunders
James Serafinowicz
production Sarah Fraser
music Carly Paradis
First broadcast November 7, 2017 on Sky One
German-language
first broadcast		 November 23, 2018 on Netflix
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Sick Note is (English for sick leave) a British comedy - television series with Rupert Grint and Nick Frost , of Nat Saunders and James Serafinowicz written and directed by Matt Lipsey was staged. It premiered in the UK on Sky One on November 7, 2017, and launched internationally on November 23, 2018 on Netflix .

action

Daniel Glass is a notorious liar and a bad relationship partner who mainly sits in the booth, smokes and plays video games. When he was told by his new doctor, Dr. Iain Glennis was initially diagnosed with esophageal cancer , but a few days later when he received the message that it was wrong and that he was healthy, he decided not to inform his fellow human beings, but instead to pretend that he had cancer, as this would benefit his relationship and surrendered to work at We Cover health insurance . The incompetent doctor willingly allows himself to be harnessed for this charade because he cannot afford to make any further missteps.

Daniel's best friend Ash, who was having an affair with Daniel's friend Becca, appears to die in Daniel's garden seconds after discovering the truth. Glennis stages a hit-and-run accident, but when Ash is found, he ends up in the intensive care unit, where he is initially with the locked-in syndrome and finally dies at the end of the first season. Suddenly Daniel's other friend Will is at the door, his video game colleague from America, whom he told the truth about the false cancer and about Ash's fall in the chat. Will blackmails Daniel and demands money that Glennis raises through an illegal drug sale, but he dies at the hands of Daniel's new boss, Katerina West, after he has revealed the truth about Daniel's alleged illness.

Officer Hayward, who is investigating Ash, first suspects that he was killed by Russian spies, then that Daniel and Glennis were involved in his death and that they are involved in a drug ring. After he was withdrawn from the case and further investigated privately, he is undercover as a drug buyer when Daniel and Glennis are threatened by a drug dealer when the police raid the place.

Episode list

season 1

No. German title Original title First broadcast country German language first broadcast (D)
1 Queen of the Hearts Queen of the Hearts 7th November 2017 23rd November 2018
After Daniel's girlfriend Becca kicked him out and he was almost fired from work, the doctor Dr. Iain Glennis, who represents himself , is diagnosed with esophageal cancer , whereupon he gets back together with Becca and cannot be fired at work, even though he vomited on his boss Kenny West. When Dr. Glennis brings him the news that it was a misdiagnosis and that he is actually healthy, so Daniel decides to keep the truth secret, but instead decides with his doctor to pretend that he has cancer and that he will be cured after a while. Daniel's friend Ash, who is having an affair with Becca, sneaks out over the outside window sill of Daniel's apartment when he overhears his plan, whereupon he rushes into the garden.
2 Eggs Playing ball November 14, 2017 23rd November 2018
Daniel and Dr. Glennis develop a plan that the latter should dump Ash's body on a street and stage an accident with a hit and run. On the way he is briefly stopped by the policeman Hayward, but he is able to carry out the plan. Meanwhile, after a video of Daniel throwing up on his boss became public, an interview with reporters was conducted at his workplace, through which his alleged illness was made public. Later, Becca and Daniel learn from Ash's wife Vanessa that he has been found and is in the hospital.
3 Janina Kolkiewicz Janina Kolkiewicz November 21, 2017 23rd November 2018
Daniel and Dr. Glennis discover that he accidentally put his own cell phone in Ash's jacket and took Ash's. In the hospital, Glennis exchanges the cell phones, but has an accident himself, which causes him to be in the hospital for a short time. In the work, Daniel is slated to become the new advertising face for We Cover , for a bonus of £ 30,000.
4th The golden grain The golden grain November 28, 2017 23rd November 2018
Dr. Glennis gives Daniel medicine bottles with vitamin tablets and has signed him up for an infusion as the start of chemotherapy, during which he wants to give him a harmless solution. Surprisingly, his boss and an employee as well as a photographer for the insurance company are present at this. During the session, Dr. Glennis is withdrawn for an interview by the policeman Hayward, whereupon Mr. West forces a nurse to perform the procedure, which uses the actual IV for chemotherapy.
5 Flight mode Airplane mode 5th December 2017 23rd November 2018
Ash opens one eye, but has locked-in syndrome . After Daniel and Glennis visit him, the latter hides in the room while Officer Hayward questions Ash using a letter board. When Ash spells KGB , Hayward believes he was murdered by Russian spies and the case is national security. Daniel and Glennis are in the bathroom when Becca pleases Ash with her hand, whereby his hoses have slipped, which she reinserted the wrong way round. Ash has a heart attack and dies of it.
6th chicken soup Chicken Soup December 12, 2017 23rd November 2018
Becca notices that a rain gutter is bent on the outside wall of the house (from Ash's fall). Because Daniel sees at the funeral service for Ash and afterwards a person in black clothes who he thinks is Ah's ghost, he decides to go to the police. But before he can confess, he and Officer Hayward learn that a nurse has confessed to having switched the hoses. When Glennis picks up Daniel, Hayward sees that his license plate contains the letters "KGB". During the night, the person in black clothes suddenly appears in front of Daniel's door: It is Will 5000 from America, with whom Daniel had chatted while playing video games.

season 2

No. German title Original title First broadcast country German language first broadcast (D)
1 František Kočvara Frantisek Kotzwara July 26, 2018 23rd November 2018
Will, who is wearing a mask because of an iron accident, nests with Daniel and Becca on the way to an appointment in Germany. When Vanessa comes by, she tells Will that she and Ash met in Daniel's garden, whereupon Will suggests that she should scatter Ash's ashes there. When Will Daniel points out his neighbour's camera pointing towards the garden, they visit him to delete the pictures of Ash's fall, but are thrown out by him beforehand. Becca accidentally dumps Ash's urn in the sink, mixing the ashes with the water and, when Vanessa tries to scatter them in the garden, ends up as lumps on the floor. Becca gets the neighbor to show her the footage, but instead of Ash's fall, squirrels can be seen in front of the camera.
Michael, his daughter and Linda find Kenny West dead from autoerotic asphyxia in his office .
2 tennis New balls July 26, 2018 23rd November 2018
Kenny West's daughter Katerina inherits the management post, but wants to sell the company. Daniel wants to break up with Becca and go out with Linda, who shows interest in him. After telling Will that they are not really friends and that he should go away, Will decides to stay and asks Daniel £ 10,000 so that he does not tell Becca the truth about the fake illness and Ash's fall.
3 Drink plenty of water Stay hydrated 2nd August 2018 23rd November 2018
Because Michael has leaked the background of Kenny's death, Katerina passes his post on to Linda. Vanessa manages to unlock Ash's cell phone, whose PIN Daniel had changed, but it falls into the toilet. Before it gives up the ghost, she sees a message from Becca with the word "cock" (English for cock as the name of the penis). To get the money for Will, Daniel and Glennis decide to sell cancer drugs to a dealer and meet with Shank, with Glennis negotiating £ 18,000 for them. After Becca kissed Will, she later tears the mask off his face and discovers that it is completely intact, which is why he escapes.
4th Breaking Bad Braking bath 2nd August 2018 23rd November 2018
After Ash's car is found nearby, Vanessa accuses Becca of having an affair with him, who in turn has just discovered that she is pregnant. While Daniel wants to leave the country because of Will's threats, his father shows up drunk at We Cover . When Daniel comes to pick him up, Will shows up too, who is leaving again when he finds out West's address. Believing that Will stole Daniel's father's car keys, Glennis cuts the car's brakes. But when Daniel and his father drive in the car, they have an accident; Glennis, on the other hand, had an accident on his bike because he was hit by a car. After Will Katerina plays a recording in her house of Daniel talking about his plan to fake cancer, she knocks him down with an iron.
5 Constable Polly Constable Polly August 9, 2018 23rd November 2018
This episode begins in the action after episode 1.06. Officer Hayward is pulled from the case and on leave, but decides to investigate privately to prove that Daniel and Glennis were involved in Ash's death. To do this, he shadows the two of them and disguises himself as a woman. After he believes they are involved in a drug ring, he drives his car to the cyclist Glennis, which ends up in West's garden. Hayward downloads the footage from Glennis' helmet camera (which also shows Katerina removing Will's body from the house), but accidentally deletes the essentials.
6th My two fathers My two dads August 9, 2018 23rd November 2018
Daniel and Glennis ended up in the same hospital after their accidents. To leave the country, Daniel needs his bag from his father's car, which is with the police. Since the officer only wants to give his father access to the car, Glennis pretends to be him. While Daniel is getting his bag, Hayward comes in, but hides when his boss appears. She asks Daniel about Will and from Katerina and Linda, who was with her in the house, he learns that Will is dead.
7th The loneliness of the middle distance runner The Loneliness of the Middle Distance Runner August 16, 2018 23rd November 2018
Daniel wants to slowly start to present himself as cured, but Katerina asks him to keep his healing a secret because she needs his illness for another campaign. She and Linda use a marathon run in which the company participates to distribute charity bracelets made up by Linda. Dr. While Hayward is shadowing him, Glennis is kidnapped in a van by masked men: they are Shank's henchmen who want his money back because the drugs Daniel and Glennis sold him were placebos. Glennis instructs Daniel to get the money out of his apartment.
8th Operation Thunderbolt Operation Thunderbolt August 16, 2018 23rd November 2018
Daniel gets the money in a bag from Glennis' wife without being caught by her, but when he is with Shank it turns out that he has exchanged the bag for the same full of the wife's underwear. Hayward, who rings Shank's doorbell undercover as a woman, is almost drugged by Glennis when police raid the apartment. Daniel and Glennis escape through the bathroom and return to the race.
Vanessa, who found clear messages from Becca on Ash's cell phone, tells Daniel that she has found out about the affair and tries to seduce him. While he sleeps on her couch, Becca appears and tells Vanessa her suspicions that Daniel killed Ash and Will.

Cast and dubbing

The German-language dubbing was created by RRP Media UG in Berlin based on dialogue books by Benjamin Teichmann, Daniel Gärtner and Thomas Rock and the dialogue director by Teichmann.

role description actor Voice actor
Daniel Glass protagonist Rupert Grint Max fields
Dr. Iain Glennis Daniel's new doctor Nick Frost Olaf Reichmann
Becca Palmerstone Daniel's partner Pippa Bennett-Warner Sonja Spuhl
Ash Matthews Daniel's best friend Tolu Ogunmefun Florian Clyde
Vanessa Matthews Ash's wife Camilla Beeput Ilona Otto
Will 5000 Daniel's video game partner Dustin Demri-Burns Daniel Gardener
Linda Zerafa Daniel's employee Marama Corlett Anja Nestler
Michael Daniel's head of department Karl Theobald Frank Röth
Kenny West Daniel's boss Don Johnson Reent Reins
Katerina West Kenny's daughter Lindsay Lohan Maria Koschny
Officer Hayward police officer Daniel Rigby Jannik Endemann
Claire Glass Daniel's mother Matilda Thorpe Almut Zydra
Gordon Glass Daniel's father David Cann Axel Lutter
Annette Glennis Iain's wife Belinda Stewart-Wilson Carmen Katt
Dr. Sampson Iain's boss Miles Richardson Sebastian Christoph Jacob
Superintendent Henchy Haywards boss Alison King Sandrina Mittelstädt
Julie Galchinski Nurse Wanda Opalinska Anna Dramski
Shank Drug dealer Robert Daws Hans Hohlbein
Athan photographer Nathan Dean Williams Martin Gleitze

background

At the end of May 2016, Sky ordered the comedy series Sick Note, written by Nat Saunders and James Serafinowicz, starring Rupert Grint and Nick Frost . It was produced by King Bert and directed by BAFTA- winning director Matt Lipsey. Even before the first season was broadcast, the series was extended by a second in April 2017 and Lindsay Lohan was cast in a new leading role in June . It is her first major serial role and marked the beginning of a return to business.

In the United Kingdom, the first season appeared on Sky One from November 7, 2017 and the second from July 26, 2018. Internationally, both appeared in full on Netflix on November 23, 2018 .

reception

Rupert Hawksley, who rates two out of five stars, wrote for the London Telegraph after the first episode that the show's premise was not bad and had a lot of comic potential, but the problem was the script, which the cast was wasted on: "Every time when things start to get going, crashing a slamming forming large brick through the screen in the form of an ill-advised invasion or forced plot points "over and destroyed the moment. the entire first season writes Greg Wheeler of Review Geek , who with rated seven out of ten points, the series is not aimed at everyone, but for a special market, which makes it difficult to sell the humor to the masses. He describes the humor as "deliciously dark, full of dry wit and merciless." Anyone who is a fan of such humor could not go wrong with the series.

For the second season, Jack O'keefe praises Lindsay Lohan's figure and portrayal compared to her early film roles for the American women's magazine Bustle . The series role allows her to stretch other comedic muscles and instead of reacting to the absurd things around her as the main character, to be absurd herself. It is a welcome reminder of why the audience originally fell in love with her: because she is really funny. Sick Note could therefore mark the beginning of a "Loan renaissance". LaToya Ferguson for the American magazine Paste has given both seasons together negative reviews. The series is "incredibly uneven, and not that funny at all, which disappoints in view of the talent in front of and behind the camera." In the series, written by two men, she sees a problem for women that Katerina almost, but not really, solves because everyone Women's roles are either scratching brushes or simplistic brushes. Daniel and Glennis are not thought leaders either, but because they always get away with their lies at the last second, they are antiheroes. Daniel is a passive, lazy character and Glennis is just an idiot, while Daniel Rigby as Hayward would take the focus from Grint and Frost and steal the show.

In Germany, Kevin Hennings is disappointed for DWDL.de by the lack of humor. "While a sitcom usually captivates with entertaining entertainment and making sure that twenty minutes don't feel long at all," Sick Note "just manages to to reveal the attempted joke. But the punch line is always sobering. [...] What could come across as funny, well written, seems almost unreservedly terrible in “Sick Note”. The comedy, which was once produced by Sky One, lacks any British humor, simply all humor. So what remains is a shell of the series that only exudes an uncomfortable feeling of sympathy. "Oliver Armknecht from film-rezensions.de criticizes the" more trivial silliness jokes that occur in addition to the black humor, which should rather find their place in the children's program , "As well as the slower pace for a sitcom, but sees the first season overall as" a very humorous affair, especially because the actors proceed without consideration for losses, "and awards seven out of ten points.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b sick note. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on May 29, 2020 .
  2. ^ Leo Barraclough: Rupert Grint, Nick Frost, Don Johnson Join Comedy 'Sick Note' . In: Vriety . May 31, 2016. Accessed May 31, 2020.
  3. ↑ Jay Richardson: Rupert Grint's Sky Atlantic comedy Sick Note gets a second series . In: Chortle . April 17, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
  4. ↑ Bernd Krannich: "Sick Note": Lindsay Lohan next to Rupert Grint in Sky-1-Comedy . In: fernsehserien.de . June 13, 2017. Accessed May 31, 2020.
  5. ^ Rupert Hawksley: Sick Note is already showing signs of heart failure - review . In: The Telegraph . November 7, 2017. Accessed June 1, 2020.
  6. ^ Greg Wheeler: Sick Note Season 1 Review . In: The Review Geek . December 3, 2017. Accessed June 2, 2020.
  7. ↑ Jack O'Keefe: Lindsay Lohan's Character In 'Sick Note' Will Remind You Of Her Early Roles In The Best Way . In: Bustle . November 23, 2018. Accessed June 2, 2020.
  8. ↑ LaToya Ferguson: Netflix's Sick Note Is Dead on Arrival . In: paste . November 21, 2018. Accessed June 2, 2020.
  9. ↑ Kevin Hennings: "Sick Note": Rupert Grint experiments and disappoints . In: DWDL.de . November 25, 2018. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  10. ↑ Oliver Armknecht: Sick Note - Season 1 . In: film-rezensions.de . December 6, 2018. Accessed June 2, 2020.