Great title. Almost on par with Stellen sie sich vor, man hat Dr. Pestel erschossen.
Reinecker again fantasizing about nymphomanic wifes (complete with pathetic saxophone music). For god sake Reinecker. Can't she just have a regular extramarital affair? Why is that always a pathological condition? There's only so many possible female archetypes in Reinecker's world. The counterpart is again a husband who can't confidently agree to an open relation. Grow a pair, talk openly to your wife about sex (that's the word you're avoiding) and be confident enough to chose and convincingly defend a self-determined relationship model! He can't leave leave her neither. Instead he pretends to be very understanding but deep within he's angry, sad, foolish, silly and confused. He's spying on her, he's defensive when he's berated. Presumably because he has a small penis and little self confidence. Neither can't he lock away his wife like others in that traditional environment constantly suggest. Even her over confident lover calls him foolish and at one point his sister prepares the divorce papers for him because the promiscuous wife is staining his reputation. Welcome to Catholic Bavaria.
And guess what happens? The clue is in the title. Like every other girl in this show who's walking home alone at night, she's killed.
The rest is boring and painful to watch psycho babble. Especially the man talking about his wife is unbearable. Who talks like that? Only the 40 seconds or so in which Derrick combines all his observations like Sherlock Holmes and tells Watson (ahhh, Harry, I meant to say) who the murderer is, are kind of good. And the end ("Löst die Fahndung aus!") is genuinely funny.
Best (an most appropriately selected) song ever in Derrick: Eurodance hit "Mr. Vain" by Germany's own Culture Beat. My hopes are low that the show's sound design has finally arrived in the 90s, though.
Review by Alexander von LimbergBlockedParentSpoilers2021-08-29T14:29:05Z
Great title. Almost on par with Stellen sie sich vor, man hat Dr. Pestel erschossen.
Reinecker again fantasizing about nymphomanic wifes (complete with pathetic saxophone music). For god sake Reinecker. Can't she just have a regular extramarital affair? Why is that always a pathological condition? There's only so many possible female archetypes in Reinecker's world. The counterpart is again a husband who can't confidently agree to an open relation. Grow a pair, talk openly to your wife about sex (that's the word you're avoiding) and be confident enough to chose and convincingly defend a self-determined relationship model! He can't leave leave her neither. Instead he pretends to be very understanding but deep within he's angry, sad, foolish, silly and confused. He's spying on her, he's defensive when he's berated. Presumably because he has a small penis and little self confidence. Neither can't he lock away his wife like others in that traditional environment constantly suggest. Even her over confident lover calls him foolish and at one point his sister prepares the divorce papers for him because the promiscuous wife is staining his reputation. Welcome to Catholic Bavaria.
And guess what happens? The clue is in the title. Like every other girl in this show who's walking home alone at night, she's killed.
The rest is boring and painful to watch psycho babble. Especially the man talking about his wife is unbearable. Who talks like that? Only the 40 seconds or so in which Derrick combines all his observations like Sherlock Holmes and tells Watson (ahhh, Harry, I meant to say) who the murderer is, are kind of good. And the end ("Löst die Fahndung aus!") is genuinely funny.
Best (an most appropriately selected) song ever in Derrick: Eurodance hit "Mr. Vain" by Germany's own Culture Beat. My hopes are low that the show's sound design has finally arrived in the 90s, though.