Today, the first episode of the miniseries The Wasteland begins airing on CT. The premiere for the "free" broadcast is ten minutes past eight today. Recall today's premiere of my review from December eight years ago.
So I've already seen the last episode of Pustina. Well the entire directorial elite could bury themselves, if they don't have the backing of American producers behind them they simply belong to cinematic sub-par. Ivan Zacharias has managed to make a series under HBO's direction that is on the same level of quality compared to big-budget productions by American filmmakers.
He probably wasn't alone in this. His other co-creator was Alice Nellis, who, together with him, made a series unparalleled in the Czech Republic. It's the best series of the last decade, and you can see the money behind it, which has been able to fulfill all the creators' aspirations and fulfill their ideas.
It wasn't just directing, but also actors who can give realism to their characters. The pinnacle of acting is not Street and other many hundreds of episodic series. That's just how actors earn their retirement.
The pinnacle of acting is making the characters really live, have memories, their feelings and their lives can be altered in such a way that fans of the movies/series are gushing with bliss over the fact that they are experiencing an episode of their show with them.
The story of lost Misha Sikora is exactly the kind of series that gradually reveals the backstory of the mysterious village of Pustina, where all the neighbors live together. They know only the uppermost skin of the people, but no one sees into their souls, which they gradually reveal over the course of the series.
This is not just the story of Misha and her disappearance, but it is the story of how poor the Wasteland is. Every resident tries to make a living as best they can. Some legally, some illegally (drugs), all complicated by the proximity of the juvenile detention center, which is full of bribes, drugs and is full of personalities who are far from criminal.
When I take the main roles, the main characters do the hardest part. The whole series stands on Jaroslav Dusek and Zuzana Stivínová. Their marriage isn't perfect, but they both do everything they can to find their daughter. The difficult role of Klara Sikora was also played by Eliška Křenková. And many other actors who play the characters as if they lived in them. It was certainly easy for Eva Holubova to play her character. Jan Cina and debuting Oskar Hes were very surprising. Even the other actors managed to bring real life to their characters.
The series is all about the characters. David Boulter's music managed to add the right mood to the whole series, which supports the sense of hopelessness of the whole setting in the secluded area surrounding the mine.
Thanks to the script and two directors, the whole series is really the right one for HBO. It certainly wouldn't have hurt if Czech Television had also aired it, then it would have shown that we can't expect anything great from television that everyone can watch. All TV stations, CT, Nova and Prima film their series only to make money. Wasteland is not about money, it's about quality and supervising actors who can act and are not just acting for money.
I'm glad I don't see Dusek, Stivínova and other actors in series, in various endless series. It's a great opportunity for them to reach out to European (maybe i American) production to get noticed.
Zacharias i Nellis is one of the best Czech directors, and so they have a great future in various series (for HBO and for film). With The Waste Land, they have made a big splash that all other directors can only remotely watch.
Rating: 100 %
