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Albatros - Season 1 (2020)

3,40 45 votes

Show title: Albatros

IMDb score: 7,4 (533)

Episodes: 8

Playing time: 5 hour and 36 minutes

Developed by: Gilles Coulier, Gilles De Schryver and Wouter Sap

Stars: Ruth Beeckmans, Benny Claessens and Marjan De Schutter

Origin: Belgium

Releasedate: Wednesday 1 July 2020

First aired on: Play More (België)

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Albatros plot

The series follows ten obese people who want to improve their lives and therefore participate in a slimming camp 'Albatros', in the Ardennes. However, upon arrival, it turns out that they are carrying excess pounds not only physically, but also emotionally. It quickly gets intense. The participants are physically challenged by a less subtle coach. But the group therapist also looks into their souls and tries to get them out of their comfort zone. The protective layers with which they kept the outside world and their past at a distance are thus removed one by one.

Episodes Season 1 (2020)

  1. 1. Didier

    1 July 2020 (42 minutes)

  2. 2. Martine

    1 July 2020 (42 minutes)

  3. 3. Bea en Arthur

    1 July 2020 (42 minutes)

  4. 4. Geoffrey en Indina

    1 July 2020 (42 minutes)

  5. 5. Raf

    1 July 2020 (42 minutes)

  6. 6. Guy

    1 July 2020 (42 minutes)

  7. 7. Evi

    1 July 2020 (42 minutes)

  8. 8. Bart

    1 July 2020 (42 minutes)

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Actors and Actresses

Evi Schoeters

Geoffrey Vierendeels

Bea Pieters

Jurgen D'Haenens

Bea Pieters

Jurgen D'Haenens

Jan-Willem Heerstra

Bart Stevens

Indina Vierendeels

Martine De Troch

Veronique Dumont

Sybille Wyns

Reviews & comments

Well acted. The people are delicately portrayed. catchy. I notice that an episode smolders with me for days to come.

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JJ_D

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Perhaps strange to say in this context, but scenario-wise it was all a bit too little for me. I mainly saw stereotypes passing by, although you develop more sympathy for a number of characters throughout the series.

Nevertheless, it must be said that the camerawork shows craftsmanship, and the soundtrack can even be called infectious. All that doesn't take away from the fact that it's a series to struggle through. Been there, done that? Look, as if old hurts and stale jokes are being redone for a change? Right, the shoe pinches where the authors conceived it, I think.

2.5*

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Movsin

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It couldn't get any crazier: a "well-being and slimming spa" in a village where the most special event of the year is a competition for gluttony to the death.
A crazy comedy because although all the "patients" (and not just them) in the Albatross all have a past that makes them quite frustrated, traumatized, scarred and usually not sweethearts, this dramatic aspect (besides being too fat, divorce, feelings of guilt, etc...) in the film does not hit the viewer like a sledgehammer or that it makes you emotional. No, it is usually light-hearted, bizarre, somewhat exaggerated and actually not immediately presented as credible.
Thus a funny event that at times comes out nicely and in which all the actors actually pull their strings well. Give the compliments to Benny Claessens as brother Geoffrey and Isabelle van Hecke as Tine is also doing very well.
The dialogues fit perfectly into this and are often spicy.
Initially I thought a 3 will suffice, because it is actually not that deep, but it is homegrown, also carries typical aspects and often makes you laugh and to think that, for example, the French had to do something like this With François Cluzet, Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Frot and others, it is not inconceivable that they would speak of the film of the year. Just think of "Bienvenue...chez les Chi'tis".
So 3.5.

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