Schneller als die Angst (2022)

Name: Schneller als die Angst
Genre: Thriller
Released: 2022-01-04T18:58:40+01:00
Rating: 2.90
Cast: Friederike Becht, Carina Wiese, Thomas Loibl

Thriller | 1 season

1 season

2,90 5 votes

Alternative title: Faster than Fear

State: Returning Series

Genre: Thriller

Origin: Germany

Developed by: Sam Davis and Kim Fatheuer

Stars: Friederike Becht, Lisa Hrdina and Stephanie Japp

IMDb score: 7,1 (511)

Releasedate: Saturday 1 January 2022

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Schneller als die Angst plot

The brutal female murderer André Haffner manages to escape from a psychiatric hospital in a spectacular way. Young sleuth Sunny Becker takes up the chase and uses all her energy to capture the fugitive. The Magdeburg policewoman is assisted by three colleagues and her partner Alex Reuter, with whom she also lives. But the tough chief detective doesn't confide in everything to her colleagues. She also has an ambivalent relationship with her therapist Nora Belling, who knows more about Sunny than she realizes.

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2,90 (5)
Schneller als die Angst - Season 1 (2022)

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Wednesday 13 April 2022

Schneller als die Angst season 1

The German drama with the wonderful title Schneller als die Angst / Faster than Fear, is hopefully not indicative of the development of the German Polizei series cinema since Tatort (1145 episodes) and Derrick (25 years). Detective Sunny Becker (Friederike Becht) hunts down serial killer and rapist André Haffner (an over-acting Felix Klare, with striking resemblance to Götz 'Schimanski' George). In episode 1 you know roughly what to expect. Confirmation will follow in episode 6. Besides all kinds of obligatory subplots, the storyline of Sunny Becker's own trauma is still the most interesting.

Faster than Fear is not only predictable, but also flat, nowhere really exciting and one-dimensional; your intelligence is not being called upon here. The swishing and restless camera work gets on your nerves and is even laughable when, to everyone's surprise, the camera shoots out of the bushes. The serial killer himself, with his life-size tattoos (yawn) and skipping in string (to keep the bottom tattoo visible), is more of a parody of the genre than an iconic meat master.

We sometimes complain about the quality of Dutch and Flemish series. Not entirely wrong. Judging by Faster than Fear, we can also embrace the Germans in our arms.