Drenge

Well this is certainly for those who have a short attention span. And it seems firmly aimed at a young audience with its episodes of 25 minutes. I'm not such a fuddy-duddy that this alone would disqualify the series for me - after all I loved Elite and Control Z. But this wasn't fun in any way at all. The storyline presented here makes it look like some sort of profound progression of a rite of passage but the reality is far more mundane.

Additionally Sylvester Byder playing the main character of Robin looks just too pretty and nice to be a hardened jailbird and fighter. He is not convincing at all in his part.

A plotline that has a clandestine group of kids branding members is simply not plausible. What? Not one mum noticed? Not one teacher saw the brands in the showers or during sports? No peeping priest saw these choirboys' mutilations? Not a spoiler by the way - this is in the first scene.

Other characters were over-the-top. Dar Selim playing Nicolaj's dad was a case in point.

I got to partway through the second episode and gave up. There are far better things to see.