When I first saw how this series was being made, I was very enthusiastic. Ted Lasso is my favorite, so I was happy that perhaps a similar series is finally being made in Hungarian. What I got is quite different now than I expected.
I definitely liked the first episode. With the mayor who cheated on his corrupt wife, the conceited farmer who supports the team, the wise club president, the player archetypes who made up the team and I could go on and on. The basic idea of a female coach taking over the management of a team could have brought completely new things. For those who don't know, in the series Ted Lasso, the newly arrived coach becomes the head of the team almost out of the blue, but he gets to know the team better episode by episode, and we get deeper into the story layer by layer. On the other hand, the characters here are extremely static, they have the sameone-dimensional character all the way through, which is frustrating, considering that they still seemed promising during the first episode.
The series could be described as "A mi kis falunk" but football. Simple characters, simple jokes, etc. It could be a pleasant experience, but there is a huge problem with the series: it doesn't really know what it wants to show. During the fifth episode, we got to the point where several minutes of the show is about:
In my opinion, a series like this (even if it tries to keep this humorous line) could be more about how the cocky young star player becomes a real "professional", how the veteran passes the baton, how the female coach copes with headwinds etc.
Instead, we're watching some kind of weird burlesque, which is not terrible but not as good as it could be.
I definitely liked the first episode. With the mayor who cheated on his corrupt wife, the conceited farmer who supports the team, the wise club president, the player archetypes who made up the team and I could go on and on. The basic idea of a female coach taking over the management of a team could have brought completely new things. For those who don't know, in the series Ted Lasso, the newly arrived coach becomes the head of the team almost out of the blue, but he gets to know the team better episode by episode, and we get deeper into the story layer by layer. On the other hand, the characters here are extremely static, they have the sameone-dimensional character all the way through, which is frustrating, considering that they still seemed promising during the first episode.
The series could be described as "A mi kis falunk" but football. Simple characters, simple jokes, etc. It could be a pleasant experience, but there is a huge problem with the series: it doesn't really know what it wants to show. During the fifth episode, we got to the point where several minutes of the show is about:
- Dóra Sztarenki, who plays the pretty secretary, tries to hide from the mayor's wife's relative in her underwear,
- the grumpy farmer is tied up, and his girlfriend to do to some dirty things while she dressed as a cleaning lady
- if the coach loses, she has to dress hot.
In my opinion, a series like this (even if it tries to keep this humorous line) could be more about how the cocky young star player becomes a real "professional", how the veteran passes the baton, how the female coach copes with headwinds etc.
Instead, we're watching some kind of weird burlesque, which is not terrible but not as good as it could be.
