In the now no longer brand new team of the Bremen "crime scene" with the detectives Liv Moormann and Linda Selb, the former is not only responsible for the temperament, but also for the foreword and epilogue from the perspective of the first-person narrator.

Liv Moormann (Jasna Fritzi Bauer) tells us something about love;

about love that is missing and about love in excess, which leads to perverse control and violence.

With which she outlines the topos of the episode "Love Rage".

This is about deadly “love”, as director Anne Zohra Berrached and cameraman Christian Huck make it clear to us from the very first shot, based on a screenplay by Martina Mouchot.

Michael Hanfeld

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An apartment has burned out, nobody is home, and the murder department says there is nothing to do here, says the policeman at the crime scene.

That changes when the colleagues open a barricaded door.

In the room lies the corpse of Susanne Kramer (Ilona Thor), dressed in her wedding dress of red tulle.

Written on the ceiling above her is the warning: "The devil is speaking to you through the walls.

He's very close.

He will get her.

I can't do anything anymore.” Liv Moormann believes in suicide and wants to leave, colleague Linda Selb (Luise Wolfram) is fascinated, convinced of a murder and wants to get started.

Why?

"Because the enemy is the devil and he's never fed up when it comes to death," she says.

Sayings of the exaggerated kind are her trademark.

Only now do the two inspectors realize that the two daughters of the dead woman have disappeared.

For the – alleged – murder and the kidnapping, three sinister characters are possible: the sleazy, childlike neighbor Gernot Schaballa (Aljoscha Stadelmann), who appears to Liv Moormann in traumatic horror flashbacks;

the even more outlandish caretaker Joachim Conradi (Dirk Martens), from whom we quickly guess why he works at the school from which the two girls disappeared;

and the dead man's husband, Thomas Kramer (Matthias Matschke), who fled his wife's mental health problems and lives with the young, naively demented Jaqueline Deppe (Milena Kaltenbach).

If there were still the dead man's father, Burkhard Dobeleit (Thomas Schendel), who knew immediately who the "devil" was doing his mischief here.

You shouldn't ask about the logic of this "crime scene" in detail, about outrageous twists and too many clichés.

The shading of the characters, on the other hand, succeeds thanks to the large cast.

There is also room for the two inspectors (more than enough with Liv Moormann's trauma recovery).

Above all, however, director Anne Zohra Berrached and her team crank up every scene in order for someone like David Lynch to get the chills out of it.

You have to like that.

Crime scene: Liebeswut

, Sunday, 8:15 p.m., ARD