The Serbian series "Branded On Court" is better than all Croatian soap operas

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"Branded On Court", I will write immediately and in that way, I will prevent me from inflicting the third injustice on them by procrastinating too much about the final judgment on that series, is better than many American ones!

If I were to claim that the Serbian series "Branded On Court", which Nova TV has been showing every day since last Monday, is better than all Croatian soap operas, I would be doubly unfair to it. I would inflict the first injustice by placing it in the rank of a soap opera, a genre to which it only partially reminds, especially because of the afternoon slot, but it is actually closer to what domestic soap operas strive for, so they are often presented unnecessarily as drama series.

Another injustice that I would inflict on it is that I have compared it only with the Croatian series. It is not too difficult to be better than the Croatian TV series. "Success," it seems to me, only succeeded in deceiving those responsible on HBO, but unfortunately not in being a good series. Not to mention those war series. They have done us enough damage without being compared to this little masterpiece coming from the East. "Branded On Court", I will write immediately and in that way, I will prevent me from inflicting the third injustice on them by procrastinating too much about the final judgment on that series, is better than many American ones! It deserves, to be quite clear, much more than this TV rose of mine that I give every week to the best that the program has to offer, and this week, you realized, it is "Branded On Court" and Nova TV that shows it every day. True, with a year of delay, because this first season in Serbia was shown at the beginning of 2019, but it still shows.

Recently, in the absence of a quality TV program, I reached for a movie from the B-net video store. On that occasion, I watched the Serbian film "We will be world champions" about their great successes in basketball. And I watched, of course, earlier "Montevideo, God Bless You!" about their great football successes. If the neighbors continue to make such films - I thought then – we'll never watch a film about their great success at the Oscars... The film "Ocean crossed, let's go for the Oscars", I shouted loudly then, laughing at my own joke, will never be shot! After the first week of showing this series, however, I’m not quite sure it won’t cross the Atlantic. Instead of a movie, they could do it with a series, and they should do it with this one, and instead of an Oscar, they will take its television equivalent, the Emmy. And that is, you will agree, a much bigger recognition than this TV rose of mine.

The plot of the series revolves around two basketball players of the last golden generation of Yugoslav basketball who won the championship with a small club from Belgrade. After his career, Vojislav became a game manager, and one of his first jobs, because of which no one can see him with his own eyes, not even his own father, was the sale of a good generation of his former club. His friend and former teammate Krešimir, who became a coach, but also a drunkard and a gambler, is trying to pay off big debts somewhere in Zagreb. Life reunites them around their youth club "Radnik", which Vojislav took over from the beginning only to get the attractive land on which their hall is located, in which he, nota bene, achieved his greatest success in life, but over time his motives they change so, in addition to saving the once famous club from bankruptcy, he also tries to save himself in an effort to become a good man again.

The motives of his friend Krešo, played fantastically by Filip Šovagović, are not exclusively financial. In that club, he will be greeted by his son, who has not wanted to deal with him for a long time, and he will try, when he has already failed to be a good father, to be at least a great coach. The role of Krešo, that actually ingenious but self-destructive and difficult type was tailored just for Šovagović. At times I manage to forget even that patient from "Our Little Clinic" whom he should never have acted, and finally, I see again that actor that I have always considered Šovagović to be and what he was supposed to become. And all the other roles, by the way, are also excellent. The young Belgrade actors in Bjelogrlić's work are fantastic, an indication that their cinematography will be ahead of ours for years to come, and old actors like Nebojša Dugalić, Marko Nikolić, and many others who appear in this series have once again justified their status as acting legends - something that has been very endangered for them due to the acceptance of various roles in Croatian productions in recent years.

"Branded On Court" is, to conclude in the haiku style of Flying Belgrader, a radio host whose character in the series is not shown, but only his voice is heard, and who gives each episode a special color with his philosophical sentences and thus makes the extra richness of this series: everything that no domestic series is.

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Without responsibility toward the money, Croatian Radiotelevision will sink into insignificance

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Screenwriters with original ideas who know how to tell intriguing and exciting stories are increasingly valued in the film business. One of them is the Croatian screenwriter and director Saša Podgorelec.  Although as a director he has made several documentaries, music videos, and TV commercials, in recent years he has dedicated himself to writing screenplays. The rights to the format of the series "Rest in Peace", on which he worked as the main writer in all three seasons, were bought by one of the largest film and television companies in the world, Lionsgate. He also wrote contemporary high-budget crime drama series, which was accepted by United Media and is currently under development, while the drama TV series "Branded On Court" is currently being shown in Serbia, in which Podgorelec also worked on the development of the story. Saša Podgorelec spoke to Nacional about his projects, plans, and successes, as well as the situation in the production of Croatian television series.

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A new feature series "Branded On Court", currently being aired in Serbia, tells a story about two once inseparable friends and teammates in a famous basketball club that is on the verge of collapse today and where you were engaged in the story development sector. How would you describe in a few sentences what kind of story and series it is?

"Branded On Court" is a series about friendship, love, family, about life and sports successes and defeats, about human weaknesses and virtues, about the need for those who have slipped somewhere to get a chance to fix what they screwed up. The goal was to make a superbly produced feelgood series for family viewing, a series that encourages smiles and occasional tears. A handful of tears, bags of laughter, but not in the format of a popular song but a TV series.

How "conditionally" controversial is this story for Croatian viewers, given that the main characters are a Croatian and a Serbian basketball player who were once members of the last, golden generation of the Yugoslav basketball team?

The controversy is in the eye of the beholder, more precisely in the collective memory burdened by war, prejudice, and generalization. If we ignore nationality and focus on characters, if we replace "one Croatian basketball player" with "the loser is looking for a second chance to get his life back on track", and if "one Serbian basketball player" s "successful manager wants to atone for his sins" there is no controversy, only the story remains which respects the cultural and mental differences of the two nations. There's no escaping from those differences, they are useful for creating dynamics between the characters, dramatic and comic tension. But more than differences, the story deals with what unites us, what we have in common - and that is emotions. And when you deal with emotions, where somebody comes from falls into the background, because emotions are a universal language, independent of nationality.

The producer of the series is Dragan Bjelogrlić, an experienced Serbian producer, director, and actor, behind whom is a bunch of extremely successful TV series. Do you believe that there is a possibility that Croatian viewers will see this series on one of the televisions in Croatia?

Well, the Croats accepted Serbian turbo-folk music without much moaning. Interest in pop culture content "on the other side" obviously exists. I, therefore, believe that there is an opportunity to take a step forward and upward from the widely accepted low-quality music content and to give a chance to a well-produced series in which a significant number of top Croatian actors play. Bonus – there's no turbo-folk in the series. Bonus two - there are a lot of talented and eye-candy girls and boys.

For Dragan Bjelogrlić's previous TV series "Black Sun", there was a great interest of foreign companies for world rights to show the series, but not in Croatia. How do you comment on that?

I can only, like a goose in the fog, speculate about the reasons for the lack of interest. And I don't do speculating, it's a waste of time.

Encouraged by the great success of "Black Sun" season one, but also by the interest of foreign companies, Bjelogrlić started filming the second season of the mentioned series. Were you perhaps involved in the development of the story?

No.

How did you like "Black Sun"?

We live in the golden age of TV series format. The best among them mix and match genres, within that game they juggle genre conventions and create unique fictional worlds that, if convincing and inhabited by interesting characters, become more real than reality. "Black Sun" is one such series. It establishes its world, its rules of the game, its aesthetics, draws the viewer into the story, and forces him to binge.

You have also been credited as the main screenwriter of the highly praised TV series "Rest in Peace", whose three seasons were shown on Croatian television. The last, third season was often commented on the sidelines as an extremely realistic presentation of the current situation in Croatia. Did you and the producer of the series Dario Vince have any mentors or some "deep throat" writing the script for the third season 

We didn't. And even if we did, I would say we didn't. It is fair to protect your sources. I'm joking. A lot of people helped, all of them are listed in the thank-you section of the end credits. The mentor was, not only for the third but also for the first two seasons, life in Croatia. You follow politics, social dynamics, you know different people in different positions, you talk to them, you get information, gossip comes to you ... So you combine, compose from many sources, both the story and the characters.

Do you know what the continuation of the life of the series "Rest in Peace" was like after it was shown in Croatia? In which countries has the series been shown so far and with what success?

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Belgium, Great Britain, USA. Anyone from those markets that wrote about the series, I did not encounter any negative criticism.

How much does the fact that the series "Rest in Peace" was bought by a company like Lionsgate mean to you as a screenwriter for further work?

First, you're flattered. Happy, proud. Then you are washed away by peace because you have proved that you can throw beyond the boundaries within which you were born and work. Then you start writing something else, and the thought strikes you - uh, I can't screw it now. But you quickly remind yourself that you already threw beyond... So you're calm. And flattered. Very simple matrix.

Does this success mean anything to your home budget?

Every career success means something to the home budget. Sometimes less, sometimes more. But money is not always the most important thing. As for Lionsgate in particular, the purchase of the format secured the order for the second season, and then the third.

Is it true that after that series you managed to write and sell a crime series to United Media?

That's right. I applied for their competition and passed, the only one from Croatia.

What kind of series is it and when will we have the opportunity to watch it in Croatia?

The series is a contemporary high-budget crime drama, currently in the development phase, which I am working on with colleagues Jelena Paljan and Antonio Gabelić. We have done a lot of work, even more awaits us. Especially me, because I am engaged as the showrunner. As for the broadcast date, there are planned and desired deadlines but we are still in the process of polishing the script, and some variables like choosing the rest of the creative team and actors, their free dates, are currently unknown so any speculation on the broadcast date would be irresponsible. We believe in the story of the series, both the team from United Media and I, and we want to present it to the viewers, but we don't want to burn out and launch a product that could have been better if we had given ourselves a month or two more.

Can a screenwriter like you make a living from his job in Croatia today?

I do not complain.

And what happens when you write a screenplay, like for the crime TV series "I, Che Guevara" which is inspired by the true events of the early nineties in Croatia, but the series never gets aired?

You treat sportily - sometimes you play nonsense and win, and sometimes you do your best and inexplicably lose in referee compensation time. You curse a little and move on.

Why was that series never actually shown, even though it was entirely filmed by production company AVA and the broadcasting deal was made?

That is the question for the producer, Roman Majetić.

A couple of years ago, you started to make a documentary about the group Pips, Chips & Videoclips, but that film is still not wrapped. Where did it get stuck and how did you envision the story of the PC&VC group?

Nothing got stuck. We're filming and we're not in a hurry. This project was, in a way, conceived when I was a teenager and going to school with the band leader Dubravko Ivaniš, and when we were not quite sure where anyone would end up and where life would take us. That's when we both met Emil Tedeschi. We are not under pressure from any deadline, the only thing that possibly presses us is the desire of three friends, Dubravko, Emil as a producer and a member of the band, and me to make a doc that all three of us will be happy with. Both at the level of the story and the level of realization, as well as emotions. No compromise, doc about the band, but above all about the author-Dubravko who is significantly more important to our culture than it seems now. That's why it takes so long. And that's why we're in no hurry. We’ll release the film when we conclude that it’s - that.

You worked on the acclaimed documentary series "Sons of the Storm" produced by HRT (Croatian Radiotellevision), which was broadcast from 1995 to 1998. HRT is often criticized today for neglecting the production of documentaries and drama series. Why is it so?

Why they are criticized - I believe because viewers, for the money they give, would like to watch a higher quality program. Which is good, because it means interest exists. And why HRT ignores - I'm not a Jedi knight, I'm just an interested and relatively knowledgeable observer, so as such I notice that the strength of the force in the HRT cathedral has been alarmingly weak for some time. There are creative outbursts that prove that HRT can and does know, not only in the production of documentaries and drama series but are unfortunately becoming rarer. If HRT does not start and use their still existing production and human resources, and if they don't start to treat the money they're dealing with more responsibly, HRT will, which is disastrous for this society, sink into insignificance. Very expensive insignificance.

Feature TV series has taken over the popularity of film blockbusters in the world today, but in Croatia, investments in TV series are very rarely invested. How would you assess the current investment in the production of documentaries and drama series by HRT, but also in Croatia today in general?

In general, Croatia can do better. And HRT too.

Given the commendable results you have achieved as a screenwriter over the past few years working on numerous TV series in Croatia and the region, do you want to reach the producers of Hollywood films or are you satisfied with your current engagement on current TV series?

I am satisfied. And to get to the big players, to play on the big field... Lionsgate is an American company. United Media is part of a business system owned by the UK and US investors. It could be said that they reached me, after "Rest in Peace" landed in Britain and America.

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Preview: Walter Presents Rest In Peace Features An 'Excellent' Lead Performance From Judita Frankovic

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The production qualities are as good as anything you’d expect to see come out of more recognised territories producing modern-day dramas like this – the shots of the prison are so beautifully creepy, you can almost feel the cold, damp conditions the prisoners had to live in. The acting is pretty good throughout, and the main characters are believable and engaging. There’s really nothing to fault.

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Why "Rest in Peace" is one of the most interesting products of European television

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Just take the scene from the ninth episode in which Kosta Mandić outsmarts Igla, sits on his dream motorcycle, flies on it from a study full of dusty files, breaks through the balcony, and performs one of the most spectacular suicides in the history of film and television.

The third season of the series "Rest in Peace" is certainly the bravest drama product we have had the opportunity to see on our small screens. If you are a less attentive viewer, who consumes several contents at once, you better not get into it. Some episodes mix the past and the present without any special announcement. Only after a while, you realize that you are in the nineties or the beginning of the millennium and only good memory of the actors' faces will help you cope with that unusual mosaic. If you've watched the series, you know that the main plot focuses on the murders of members of Zagreb's golden youth. Their fathers - all of them Croatian pillars of society - did not do what was required of them and the punishment came in the form of the liquidation of the dearest and most loved.

General Koretić (Dejan Aćimović), who entered the bottled water business after the Homeland War, the seemingly untouchable banker Bučević (Žarko Savić) prone to S/M sessions, the media tycoon Bedrica (Sreten Mokrović), who gladly receives services but is reluctant to return them equally, the judge of the Supreme Court Stančec (Damir Šaban) with a great character flaw - cowardice, and the Minister of War Urem (Dušan Gojić) who paid for his disobedience with the death of one of his daughters. The so-called Network is asking everyone for a special fee, their lawyer Halužan (Dražen Čuček) kindly threatens, but God forbid that the Network, instead of the lawyer, sends to disobedient the criminal Igla (Velibor Topić) or Žarko Paspa (Marinko Prga), a former UDBA agent, who is more dangerous after Croatia's independence than ever.

Lucija Car (Judita Franković), once a journalist and now an archivist on television, is involved in all this, leading investigations on her account, and probably God wouldn't know what she found out if she wasn't protected and informed by Paspa's archenemy Mate Šušnjara (Dragan Despot), his informant Kosta Mandić (Danko Ljuština) and lame boxer Miki (Slavko Štimac). The forces of the conflicting parties are not in balance, especially not in the end when it seems that the Network will definitely take the lead, but already in the middle of the tenth, the last episode, which was broadcast yesterday, the arrests of the corrupt begin.

But it may not turn out that way - the members of the Network were not demonstratively disabled or called out, there are many indications that the battle continues, Lucia's murder was even ordered, but as the creators of the series claim, there will be no fourth season, so draw your own conclusions about what will happen next. After all, if you follow through the media what is happening in Croatia today, do not have too many illusions, even though the younger generation politician Ana Srnec (Dijana Vidušić) believes that society can change for the better, and there are even younger activists of the movement "Enough!", who in the end have no idea that their protests saved Lucia's life. We were not spared lectures on why what happened in Croatia, how a new class was created, and how the unpleasant aspects of the transition may have been necessary, but I guess it is because the series was funded and broadcast by Croatian Television.

The third season will be remembered primarily for the excellent production that we have not seen on domestic screens for a long time. Just take the scene from the ninth episode in which Kosta Mandić outsmarts Igla, sits on his dream motorcycle, flies on it from a study full of dusty files, breaks through the balcony, and performs one of the most spectacular suicides in the history of film and television. In the tenth episode, Igla challenges Mate in a real straight ring, he is overpowered and armed, but he wants to prove that he is better in fist fighting as well. We’ve already seen something like this in martial arts movies, but here it’s done with style and extremely compelling. There is everything in that episode, a police helicopter is in action, while Žarko Paspa and Mate Šušnjara are fighting in a mine-laden forest.

The series is excellently directed (Goran Rukavina) and filmed (Darko Drinovac), the special effects are world-class, but what makes them stand out is the acting performances. Judita Franković found new nuances in the character of Lucija Car, she is now a mature woman and no longer an ambitious investigator who doesn't even know what she's getting into, while Dragan Despot is the dramatic backbone of the series: in the first season he seemed like a pure villain, in the second he began to show some more layered traits, while in the third he grew into a combination of a full-blooded action hero and a character actor. The enumeration of the best acting performances could take time - the interplay between Dejan Aćimović and Mladen Vulić is especially effective, as is the episode of Inga Appelt.

You don't have to like everything, for example, the character of Igla, played by the great Velibor Topic, is announced from the very beginning, you expect him to dominate in the final, and you are a bit disappointed when he is liquidated ahead of time, and replaced in the role of inevitable villain by Marinko Prga. It was possible to craft the story without flashbacks in which Lucija's late father (Darko Milas) and her partner from the first season Martin Strugar (Miodrag Krivokapić) appear, but it was probably poetic for the screenwriters, and to some extent, that connected the whole trilogy. Of course, this is not the strongest side of the series, its main trump card is the special connection between drama and action, as well as unconventional solutions, according to which "Rest in Peace" ranks among the most interesting products of European television, in a selected circle in which are Romanian "Shadows" and some of the Scandinavian and British products. That's a huge achievement and it should be constantly emphasized.

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How "Rest in Peace" reminded me of Kišević

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Indeed, we do not know who A Hero of Our Time is. We don't even know who is watching Lucija from the car. The duel between Lucija and Pečorin was interrupted by the budding youth. Their message "Enough!" is a message to both viewers and potential assassin. Each of us, viewers, must decide what will happen next. Ambitious and unprecedented in the Croatian series. Viewers are trusted so much to be left with such an important decision? We can approve it or not, but the decision is brave anyway.

It is somehow appropriate that "Rest in Peace" on HRT ended just before the spring equinox. Winter is leaving, "Rest in Peace" is also leaving. Lucija Car, a journalist who likes to stick her nose where it doesn't belong, has reached the end of the road and has to grow up. Because, whether I want to admit it or not, many times in these three seasons Lucija was a child, even a brat, who plunged into unknown dangers. It is so imagined, it is so written, it has crept under our skin. The moment in which she symbolically grows up is the moment in which she reconciles with herself. Mate Šušnjara is gone, the baby is on way, and she will find a new job with her family. This is where the circle closes. We could say that she ran away from her family for three seasons, just to come back to them in the end. The circle and the end, however, are associated with Enes Kišević. "The point outside the circle is mocking." Indeed, we do not know who A Hero of Our Time is. We don't even know who is watching Lucija from the car. The duel between Lucija and Pečorin was interrupted by the budding youth. Their message "Enough!" is a message to both viewers and potential assassin. Each of us, viewers, must decide what will happen next. Ambitious and unprecedented in the Croatian series. Viewers are trusted so much to be left with such an important decision? We can approve it or not, but the decision is brave anyway.

The third season told a deeper story than the previous two. The killings of the "golden youth" are taking place under the radar of the media and the police. The link between corruption, crime, and politics is visible at every step. Young politicians are instructed by the old ones, army generals must learn the modern way of warfare, and bankers do not have the same rules for everyone. If it seems familiar to you, you are not wrong. The line between fiction and reality was nowhere as blurry as this season. Judita Franković as Lucija plays her role quite well. Although there are moments that seem forced (talking to a psychiatrist, talking to the sister of one of the victims), the character of Lucija Car enters the annals of Croatian television production simply because we have never had a TV character who went through such a demanding journey. If we talk about appearance, Franković showed it in subtle nuances and expressions. If we talk about the character, the transformation from the first to the third season leaves us speechless. "Rest in Peace" is probably the only Croatian series so far that is suitable for binge-watching, and the ability of Judita Franković to keep the central character interesting all the time is one of the main reasons for that. 

The lever of the story that revolves around Lucija Car and Mate Šušnjara is completely exhausted here. Lucija has gone from a naive journalist to a traumatized woman who has to finish a story she has started, while Mate has gone from a stenciled antagonist to a complex protagonist of a story dating back to the 1970s. UDBA, the former state secret agency, as the too-often mentioned demon of the Croatian public space and "lustration" as its echo is the context of the classic story of revenge, which, as the famous proverb says, is served cold. Mate will carefully prepare revenge, which is why the relationship between him and Lucija culminates. Two people who otherwise would probably not even drink coffee together met at a common goal. As in the cult series "La Piovra", they are in a strange symbiosis. Their rival is "the web" that has neither head nor tail, and is everywhere. The question of the justification and futility of the effort arises by itself. You can cut off a tentacle from an octopus, but nothing changes. Removing one means that two more have slipped under your radar. That's why the criticism I've had the opportunity to hear, as this season doesn't have a clear antagonist, doesn't hold up. The antagonist is clear if one wants to recognize it. The pamphlet read to us in the tenth episode also suggests this. After three seasons, the question "has anything changed" is completely justified. If we ask ourselves whether everything is really like that and whether everything was in vain, I am afraid that we - like Lucija - will have to go to a psychiatrist.

This season, Dragan Despot was joined by Danko Ljuština and Slavko Štimac - the dream team of Croatian acting. It was wonderful to see the three of them complementing each other as Lucija's support and - each for his own reason - trying to find a way to get rid of the past. Kosta Mandić, as a former UDBA operative, is one of those characters that we could comfortably change a bit so that they would be Number One from Alan Ford comic. The black humor that surrounds the character is one of the most entertaining refreshments of the third season, and his explosive departure that the creators of the series honored us with will remain one of the iconic moments of Croatian television by which we will remember "Rest in Peace". The music of that scene, for which Arsen Dedić was unexpectedly chosen, is a great dedication to one of the greatest Croatian composers. If someone had described the scene to me and said that he had chosen Arsen as the soundtrack, I would have told him that he was crazy and that Mišo Kovač would be more suitable for something like that. The context that accompanies Costa, however, proves me wrong. This "man with an omniscient notebook" was drawn from the Balkan nightmares and the already mentioned Alan Ford comic. It’s a character who deserves his own series, as a spin-off of this one. In the introduction, we could say: “Somewhere there is a nightmare of all those in power. Somewhere where you least expect it, there is a guy who knows everything."

On his return to Croatian screens, Slavko Štimac confirmed that he is a phenomenon. Miki, a boxing coach - who takes on the role of Lucija's conscience/assistant from Miodrag Krivokapić - is a father figure in accordance with all the laws of the genre. The problem I have with this season is in the insufficiently well-developed reactions to Miki's end. Here we come to the point that maybe an episode or two was missing throughout the season. Although Dario Vince and Saša Podgorelec did a great job, I have the impression that the story of killing the "golden youth" could be deepened and elaborated, and that the character of general Koretić (Dejan Aćimović) as a brilliant amalgam of several recognizable phenomena of the Croatian transition could have been better used. It is worth mentioning the memorable Tena Nemet Brankov, as well as the excellent episode by Katarina Strahinić and the breath-taking Inge Appelt. I’m sorry there wasn’t a strong older female character this season. All the female characters are reduced (except Nina Erak who is there to make you laugh and relax) either to characters with trauma or too weak, addicted women. Lucija's mother Katja (Jasna Odorčić) and journalist Zora Agnezi (Jelena Miholjević) are an example of characters who did not overcome their shortcomings from the first season, so I still stand by the fact that the second season benefited from their absence. Refreshment is Lucija's brother Goran (Ivan Ožegović), who is probably the first character in a Croatian feature production to show a person with a disability who is not completely incapable and dependent on someone else's help but has a function and knows what to do with life. While in the first season he only watched pornography and called his mom/sister from the next room, here he is a more independent and realized man. He is not completely without flaws either, but he is a big step in the right direction.

It's time to mention rock band Pips, Chips & Videoclips whose song "K1" has been haunting me for several weeks now, forcing me to think of different possibilities of fictitious and real answers to the question of what it means to "be good in an evil world". The answer to that question is not given to us by the third season of "Rest in Peace", that is, it is not unambiguous. Is it Lucija who sticks her nose in or Lucija who quits from everything to build her own future, leaving it to some new generation to say "Enough!"? This, too, could be the subject of some next Ring Production series if there is interest in it. A series in the same world as "Rest in Peace", with some similar links and references, one of which would be the "Enough!" movement, might make sense. In fact, it would be a shame for this team to stay on this alone. The series "Rest in Peace" paved the way of Croatian TV production for a more demanding audience. Matanić's "Newspaper" also grew on that foundation. We can only hope that "Rest in Peace" will not be a rarity as a series that goes beyond fiction and seeks to educate and bring change.

Something like Kišević's, already mentioned, "point outside the circle".

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