Review: For StarDance viewers. With the new series, they will remember the dance | Currently.cz

Director Jiří Vejdělek filming a project with stars. Dance, which starts airing on Friday night New TV and you can also watch them in the Voyo video library, they are going to be successful. Why? Because it will undoubtedly appeal to a similar audience as one of the most successful reality TV formats, if it is also, of the Czech television competitor StarDance.

After the first episodes, the feature novel really stands out with one similar quality. It also has zero voltage. However, StarDance does not stand for conflict, it just wants to offer beautiful pictures. Taneční, as a series, naturally has to engage in fights. Above all, for those who can offer a small town environment. Even if the “drama” in the middle hits already at the family dinner.

Kulhánek in appeal Sasha Rasilova he is as strict a father and husband as he is a dance teacher. He has to organize everything, which his wife does not like, to play Jitka Ježková. Especially when the mother-in-law is constantly impersonating the son Daniela Kolařováwho apparently had inherited traits. And who likes to invite herself to family dinners so she can criticize her daughter-in-law for not being the efficient housewife she once was.

The wife only has memories of the time when she and Kulhánek created not only a life couple, but also a dance couple and won competitions. Now she only dances as the man whispers.

In the first episode, the series itself unfolds in the same model as the description of this family constellation.

The hour-long footage of individual events seems unattainable, the script of Ivana Hokrová provides the characters called speaking surname and also several machine dialogs. During them, the main characters often do not talk to each other, but to the audience. In unnatural exchanges, they communicate how the individual heroes relate to each other or what the past is like. And of course, everyone is playing to fit the printed space that the creators have woven for them.

Oldřich Kulhánek is pulled out of his rut ​​by the arrival of his former lover, Karel Král, in love and dancing. He receives an offer to lead dance lessons at the place that Monika’s mother had been renting until now. But now he is looking for another person for the lecturer who broke his neck.

The idea that the enemy King should “rule” in the family building at the place of his mother-in-law disturbs Kulhánek so much that he changes his way of refusing to take the lesson.

In fact, the scene of the plot is like something from an old operetta. Maybe that wouldn’t matter in a rest series without big intentions, if he had a swing and moved forward on the goal. But the action on the screen moves at a tiresome pace, and what’s worse, even the filming of the choreography doesn’t look convincing.

For example, the last series of the first episode takes place at a competition, where there should be tension between rival couples, where the descendants of the rivals Kulhanek and the King also dance. However, the series is edited in short pictures, only two seconds, which do not allow us to enjoy the grace of the dance, or to read drama or emotions from the actors.

The eight-part series builds on the nostalgic or disturbing memories that most viewers have of their own dance.

Even this “emotional benefit”, which the creators easily get from the audience, does not reduce the feeling that everything unfolds according to patterns that are too obvious. And that it runs in an almost too slow crawler rhythm.

The youth of the area will give an insight into the events that were not common among the witnesses. Although the earlier youth workers’ hatred of the dance lessons came from direct opposition to an activity whose mastery does not make general sense in today’s world, the teenagers in Tanečních can name clearly.

“They say that ballroom dancing is a reflection of patriarchal oppression,” one of the girls explains her sister’s feelings. “That’s basically true, but it’s also fun,” says Olivia, Kulhánek’s daughter and a “victim” of his coaching methods.

When in this “no strong opinion about anything” mode, the young people say sentences from the script to each other, it seems a little more natural than watching the life of Olivia’s mother, Monica, who must answer to her husband. questions about what’s for dinner. Or the debates about other characters in the cafe, just emptying the time.

The dance ones are just a drop – a very small drop – filmed very much like the endless classic soap operas Nova produced. The question, however, is why move this type of production to prime time and give it an hour long movie.