This is one of the best danish TV-shows ever made! It's a brilliant satire of the do cu-soap genre. When I saw the trailers, I thought it was for a real documentary, and didn't't watch it at first. But luckily, they kept repeating the series. Since the letters P.I.S means urine in danish, I guess I should have been aware it was a satire. What makes it especially brilliant, is that the guy who in a normal TV-show would be the hero, i.e. the handsome, clever and smart guy (think Tom Cruise), in this he is simply to self absorbed for us to really like him. In this series it is the "anti-hero" we follow and care for instead, even though he is kind of a jerk. The acting is superb (I believe a lot was improvised). 10 out of 10!
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Best danish tv comedy show EVER !
Martin_Skovgaard17 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This is the funniest danish TV show ever.
Each episode is one story.
The show plays like a documentary where we follow an elite police task force consisting of 3 (as far as I remember) squad members and a task force leader called Bjarne. They are so experienced and sure of themselves that they don't really prepare enough. They just wing it.
"John Schmidt" is the team leader. He is the "classic" hero although underneath the surface he is very insecure. "Sebastian" is the fat sniper. He is always hungry and talks about his wife a lot. He is closeminded, sexist and a racist, which makes for some funny scenes. Especially when an arab and a woman joins the squad at various points. "Niels-Christian" is the new age hippie, smartass who never makes mistakes. Very annoying person. Self absorbed.
The team is from the very beginning increased by a new member "Niels-Christian" (the only newcomer that survives). "John Schmidt" does not like him as he threatens his position as team leader. This is the main cause of all the problems because John does stupid dangerous stuff in order to prove that he is the best. In one episode they visit a school (PR visit). Because the children like the Niels-Christian better John Schmidt goes berserk and careless trying to get the children to like him. This causes a teacher to get injured by a flash bang. Very funny stuff.
In subsequent episodes a new member will join. Usually a minority (woman or an arab). The squad is very scpetic of these new members, especially Sebastian and although they end up being better than the other team members they always end up dead because of the mistakes done by the rest of the team.
Then the mistake is explained away like the dead team member was to blame.
Only the danish tv show "Lykke" comes close to being as funny as this. But "Politiets indsatsstyrke" is the best !
Each episode is one story.
The show plays like a documentary where we follow an elite police task force consisting of 3 (as far as I remember) squad members and a task force leader called Bjarne. They are so experienced and sure of themselves that they don't really prepare enough. They just wing it.
"John Schmidt" is the team leader. He is the "classic" hero although underneath the surface he is very insecure. "Sebastian" is the fat sniper. He is always hungry and talks about his wife a lot. He is closeminded, sexist and a racist, which makes for some funny scenes. Especially when an arab and a woman joins the squad at various points. "Niels-Christian" is the new age hippie, smartass who never makes mistakes. Very annoying person. Self absorbed.
The team is from the very beginning increased by a new member "Niels-Christian" (the only newcomer that survives). "John Schmidt" does not like him as he threatens his position as team leader. This is the main cause of all the problems because John does stupid dangerous stuff in order to prove that he is the best. In one episode they visit a school (PR visit). Because the children like the Niels-Christian better John Schmidt goes berserk and careless trying to get the children to like him. This causes a teacher to get injured by a flash bang. Very funny stuff.
In subsequent episodes a new member will join. Usually a minority (woman or an arab). The squad is very scpetic of these new members, especially Sebastian and although they end up being better than the other team members they always end up dead because of the mistakes done by the rest of the team.
Then the mistake is explained away like the dead team member was to blame.
Only the danish tv show "Lykke" comes close to being as funny as this. But "Politiets indsatsstyrke" is the best !
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