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With his wife Annette (Ruth-Maria Kubitschek) having left for the Bermudas, "Monaco" Franz (Helmut Fischer) has moved in with his best friend Manni (Karl Obermayr) - and has taken to drinking. In his mind, he still has a telepathic link with Annette that keeps him from making the worst mistakes ... but he still keeps making the worst mistakes, like causing a fire in Manni's apartment, which causes the two to split ways. Franz temporarily moves in with a new flame of his (Gertraud Jesserer), who kicks him out soon though for his irresponsible behaviour. And that's where his trail ends when Annette returns from the Bermudas for a visit. At first, she blames everyone but herself, especially Manni, for her husband's downfall, but eventually forces her best friend Olga (Christine Kaufmann) to accompany her on her quest through the worst pubs in town to find Franz, and when Olga quits for exhaustion, she soldiers on alone, until she finds him in the company of two small-fry crooks with whom he's planning a bank heist that's doomed to fail, but when Franz sees his wife, he forgets about everything else ...

Sure, there are some good jokes in this one, often of a deliciously subtle nature, but in all this episode has more of a dramatic tinge, something that also marred the last couple of episodes [here and here] but is taken to new extremes here, and it's something that doesn't fit the series too well, mainly because the exaggerations the series used in a comedy context don't work nearly as well in drama. And the dramatic conclusion to the series hasn't really been worked towards until last episode, with this one still being a too straightforward story arc to create much dramatic friction. That said, this one's by no means a trainwreck, as mentioned there's quite some good laughs, but as conclusion to a pretty awesome series it's a bit of a disappointment.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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