Forst

I thought my eyes would roll out of my head 10 minutes in, and it just kept getting worse.

Tries way too hard to be gritty and atmospheric with every scene, no matter how pedestrian, framed (and scored) to feel like the pivotal moment in a thriller where Our Hero goes into the serial killer's lair. If you tried to turn this into a drinking game where you had to take a shot every time it copied a better writer/director, you'd need your stomach pumped halfway through the first episode.

I'm a native Polish speaker, so nothing was lost in translation.

Honestly deserves a lower rating, in purely objective terms, but compared to the state of television today, a five feels fair.

I liked the look on this one so I decided to watch it and give it a go.

What I got after the series had ended was a slow burner which is fine if the story goes well, but this one wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be so each episode went awfully slow.

Next was the story line, Forst who is the main character was bedding every woman that looked at him, really were all those women that desperate to sleep with an ordinary looking guy?

This side of the story had me rolling my eyes and asking myself really, which made me laugh out loud.

Then there were the awful, tiresome sex scenes just to show how much of a stud the hero was.

When it came to conclusion, I knew who the main bad guy was halfway through the series.

If Netflix have another one of these Forst series, I will not be watching it.

Do yourself a favour and give this a miss.

This series has an excellent premise, a very interesting and solid development, a severe amount of violence, a cunning villain, relatively well-developed characters, a fluid and tense script, good actors, good performances, atmosphere and photography that are always heavy and suffocating, in other words the almost perfect recipe. At times it even reminded me of Seven.

But the ending is absolutely disappointing. I even think that the final scene was written on purpose to leave a hook for a second season. However, I believe that if there is, it will be clear that everything would be resolved with one more episode, not an entire season. It would give a rate of 7, but with that ending, 6 is enough.

Some screenwriters need to be humble and remember that sometimes less can be more.

I love Polish Crime Series such as Oldwilz (The Thaw) and Rojst (The Mire). I had really high hopes for Forst and the series started really good. The atmosphere is really good and acting is good. Nevertheless, it was a bit hard for me to finish this serie since I started to notice plot holes with each episode. The ending was shocking but still there were many gaps in the story which makes it really hard to understand because the motive of the killer is unclear. Furthermore, it was hard to understand the last scene of the serie. I guess that there will be a second season which will explain everything but if there will be no a second season then I can clearly say that do not waste your time on this serie. As a result 6 points over 10.

Our Polish cinematography is always behind - 20 years after the world discovered romantic comedies, we were making romantic comedies, and now, 10 years after the world discovered serial killer series, we are making serial killer series. And each one is identical. Every dark Polish series is a mishmash of Swedish series. There's a detective with a past, who has issues with his superior, there's a rebellious journalist, there's a psychopathic killer performing rituals. How many times have you seen this? So this one is for connoisseurs - those who don't have enough yet. The actors are good, the cinematography is good, but there's too much repetition and too many stereotypes. Not great directorial work.