Necrotongue

The first episode of the series was a pleasant surprise. I usually don't expect much from modern horror shows since they often rely on cheap jump scares, but this one was different. Instead of going for the easy scares, the French creators focused on building a genuinely tense atmosphere, and honestly, they nailed it.

It’s been thirty years since the first season of this series was filmed, and even after all those years, it doesn't cease to be entertaining. The first season clearly stands out, the others no longer offered such a perfect interplay of investigation and scientific progress, but the acting performances of the cast in the individual episodes were still great. I found “The Century of the Detective” by Thorwald truly fascinating and the first season was clearly based on it. Later seasons were no longer inspired by the book, and you can really tell.

I'm giving the final season of the series five stars. I don’t consider it to be as brilliant as the first one, but the stories were still really well written. 5*-

The third season was similarly unbalanced as the second one. There were great episodes again, but there were also considerably weaker ones, which affected the final rating. I certainly don’t think watching the third season was a waste of time, though, unlike other shows.

The final episode of the third season was significantly better than the previous one, I really enjoyed the search for a skilled forger, and the first scene surprised me. 1952 and Karl Marx? Fortunately, the creators immediately put me into the picture, but even so, I chuckled until the end.

Honestly, I believe that the episode should receive four stars from me, because it wasn't bad at all, but I purely relied on my feelings, and that's how it turned out. There was more politics here than detective work, and I caught myself several times pondering over the pattern on the curtain because the plot bored me a little bit.

Although it wasn't a classic investigation, I still enjoyed the third episode. The victim's headquarters looked like a snake's nest, David Matásek and Václav Vydra were fighting over the title of the episode's misfit, but when two people fight... The fact is that poor Horand was somewhat overshadowed by these unlikeable characters, but I had a good time.

For the first time, I was able to praise an episode whose plot is set in the USA, at the same time it is one of the best episodes of the entire series. The script of the episode was excellently written, I saw convincing performances by the actors, and the story itself really captivated me. I didn't have to hesitate with my rating here.

The introductory part of the third series was somewhat unremarkable, instead of investigating, they only took pictures of horses, so even the third transatlantic episode didn't impress me. If the characters introduced by Petr Haničinec and Vladimír Dlouhý appeared in the plot, I would think it was a bonus episode of Dobré Vody. The only thing that pleased me was the appearance of the talented young Matěj Hádek:-)

The second season came two years after the first one. Although it managed to keep a considerable amount of the original quality, I still think it was slightly weaker. It was saved by the greatly entertaining final two episodes. On the other hand, three out of eight episodes turned out to be slightly disappointing.