It may not be entirely Netflix wrong, but the streaming giant has definitely escalated the development: Old comedy favorites such as Gilmore girls, Arrested development and The House were fully revived with more or less the same cast as when it went.
The feeling is a bit
like being in Stephen King's Jurtjyrkogården where buried dead are resurrected: It looks much like it did and behaves much like before, but something is wrong.
It's a bit joyless and sleepwalking.
"Sometimes dead is better" as the book's subheading read.
Here in Sweden we have got the Brokers
.
The TV series was broadcast for two seasons starting in 2006. Broker Kaj has no qualms and his life is, due to many bad decisions, tipping over.
He is forced to do something in common with Vilma, a spoiled heir to the suburban real estate agency Hagamäklarna.
On good grounds, the series became a favorite for many - a bit like a Swedish The office, without being a direct imitation.
Appropriately black-eyed humor, the sect-like budget Masonic society Golden brokers and fine interplay between Kjell Bergqvist's buffalo Kjell Berqvist type and Cecilia Frode's Paris Hilton-inspired Vilma.
The new season feels
more like something for almost grieving nostalgics.
It seems that the authors (Patrik Eklund directed and Ulf Malmro's script) have been afraid that the sequel will feel tired.
The solution is to hurry through the scenes at a fast pace, no jokes must land properly and everything should be clear so that you do not miss exactly what the joke was.
The background music that should indicate the tempo is warm and the audience is left with an open ending, which mostly feels like an excuse to do six episodes without ending any of the intrigues you have started.
The bright spot is the actors
.
Cecilia Frode and Kjell Bergqvist still have a fine personal chemistry, Sven Wollter is seen in his last role and among others Lotta Tejle and Klara Zimmergren appear in grateful supporting roles.
William Spetz - who is supposed to be the series' young element has not had much to do with his role, which is a shame.
On the whole, the new season of The Brokers, like their American predecessors in revival land, feels like a rather unnecessary project that shows that it is difficult to get something to live outside the spirit of the time it was born in.
The brokers will be shown on Discovery + from 7 May.