I watched Drück (Skam Germany) season 2 and it left me completely cold
Okay so i was going through another Skam marathon and I haven’t really had the urge to watch the international remakes before, but now I felt like I wanted to watch Skam, but I didn’t want to watch what I’ve already seen a thousand times. So I had seen quite a lot of Drück on my dash before and that’s what I decided to go with. I couldn’t find season 1 of Drück with english subs on youtube, so I decided to start with season 2 since it’s not like I don’t know what has happened in season 1. Seasons 2 and 3 have always been my favourite ones and if I absolutely had to pick I might even choose season 2 over season 3, but the German version... I wanted to like it, but honestly it left me feeling really empty. This might end up being a really long post but here’s what I didn’t like about it.
First of all I feel like this show lacked personality. It was like a hollow copy of the original. And oh how much the characters lacked personality!! Like Noora (I’m going to use the og Skam names, because I can’t remember the new ones) was this anxious mom character? All of her original playfulness was gone I think and with that so was her chemistry with William. William too was so empty. He didn’t have any of that fuckboy charisma in him and he certainly did not seem like the king of the school. To me he actually seemed like a creepy lonely kid - not the William vibe at all. Also why did he lie about his sister living in Bali - as if he would date Noora and even in twenty years time he’d be like oh yeah she’s living her life in Bali but doesn’t want to meet you so sucks to be you but she’s alive for sure. He would’ve never gotten away with such a lie it was stupid.
But the character I’m really disappointed in is Sana... Noora and Sana are my two absolute favourite characters in this series but I felt nothing towards Sana. All of her badass traits and honesty were gone. She had completely lost her essential Sananess. It’s ok to change the characters somewhat and for example make Sana a bit softer but this.. If I had to describe Sana based on this representation, all I could tell you is how she looks and that she works at deliveroo. And why is it such a secret? And what’s the point of her working there other than that she happens to be delivering the food when Noora is on a date with William? And the speech about her parents thinking a job like that was beneath them because they are doctors - such bullshit makes the parents seem really annoying and snobbish. As if a high school student could practice medicine or law like hello that’s the kind of shitty jobs they do.
Also Chris, did she even say anything during the series? It felt like they just had her hanging around because there were five girls in the original, but she didn’t add anything to the story. Didn’t really like Eskild or Linn too much either. The only character who had any gumption in her was Vilde but she managed to be even more annoying than the original. I’ve always been a bit Vilde supporter but I just couldn’t stand behind this one. And the breast surgery?? Like wtf that was too much.
And the boys, I found it hard to keep up with them. I knew which one was Jonas but the rest of them were just a big mess. Who was the boy Vilde got together with? Did they introduce Magnus a season earlier or was he a different character? Was there p-Chris? Were there any of William’s friends? I now know which one was Isak because I’ve watched the season 3 clips which have come out (or the ones I’ve found at least) but honestly I’m not feeling that either. Doesn’t anyone even notice that Isak seems to be pretty severely depressed? Tbh his character seems quite dull but maybe I’d feel different had I seen season 1 of Drück. I’m going to give season 3 a chance, at least until we meet Even but so far I’m not into it.
Honestly I hardly finished the season 2. If this had been a whole new series I would’ve stopped probably after two episodes, but I really wished the series would get better but it didn’t. I didn’t feel any excitement or anything really and it’s my favourite season and favourite ship but I felt nothing.
I feel like this series just lacked the real feeling of Skam and a lot of the dialogue seemed pretty forced and scripted. I speak Swedish so well that when I watched OG Skam I didn’t need subtitles to go with it. I speak a tiny bit of German but not enough to understand it so I did need the subtitles. I hate subtitles because I feel like lot of the nuances can be lost through them which is why I pay so much more attention to things like body language and the way people say things to understand it better and honestly it all just seemed a bit fake.
Well here’s my rant about the subject, feel free to enter the conversation whatever your opinion might have been on this. It would be interesting to hear wether I’m alone in my opinion and why you think it’s good or maybe you felt the same way I did. Let me know what you guys thought! I also started to watch the NL Skam and that one was a whole different story! I felt so much more invested in it and absolutely loved all the characters and can’t wait for more, but I might make another post about that later on.
