There's a lot of potential here. I'm thinking a slow burning Breaking Bad set up that sells itself as a light hearted Fawlty Towers-type show about a wide eyed Monopoly enthusiast fulfilling his dream, but with every season it gets darker and grittier and ends as a tangled web of international crime and corruption. Everything spirals out of control. The hotel is hosting a big conference and the minister of whatever is holding a keynote speech and the hotel is full of press, meanwhile the johannesburg arms dealers killed a prostitute that turned out to be an undercover cop and the body is still in their room, also there's a call from some really angry russian loan sharks, they're coming for their fucking money right now.
I'm holding out for a Breaking Bad style show about a software consultant who realizes how much money they can make by pivoting to running a malware ransom ring
Not quite Breaking Bad, because it comes at the story from the other direction, but there's a German show on Netflix called How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast), which is pretty entertaining so far.
I expect if the series lasts long enough they'll work the storyline up to manufacture.
I had just read about Dutch meth. That's one thing I never thought I would hear about, Dutch meth. However, a Breaking Bad European spin off would be interesting.
It doesn't have to be like that though, your focusing on the parts that just wouldn't be interesting enough to get air time.
I was thinking about it more in terms of a show where a fake independent group get called in to deal with security situations. A corp getting hacked repeatedly and they have to deal with it. Being called in to audit security and finding illegal activities, etc.
If you sit and analyse real processes like the judicial system, or actual crime scene investigation or corporate law, or hospital systems. You rarely find things that make for immediately interesting and compelling television. However that hasn't stopped very successful tv shows being produced that are about these areas. Mostly because these shows focus on the people and issues than the system.
I'm only saying that it should be possible to create a entertaining tv program that does highlight the issues in this area. Greater public awareness here can't be a bad thing. :)
Netflix is going to adopt this idea right now. It is going to be produced by either one of those comedy-type directors of Marvel cinematic universe Taika something Gunn or one of their frequent collaborators or siblings.
The story will spin around a bunch of college students who come from different lower to middle class background. There is a going to be Indian or Pakistani girl who came here to pursue higher studies. She is constantly ridiculed by the upper caste Indian students who are now part of the British elite class society. Then you have an Irish or some kind of GB region person who is also socially suffering. Then you have your usual group of social misfits. They share a common identity of being misfits of those times that is coincidentally representative of the times of present.
Then someone among them kills some elitist upper class royalty type accidentally who was trying to abuse that person. Ah yeah, this going to happen after a party where those misfits are going to dance in a certain way to certain music that they know will popular in TikTok. Then the group bands to together to come up with a serial killer identity to hide the crime. They don't kill people but the do things that make people there is serial killing going on.
Then you have your usual sheninigans. In season 1 a professor joins in their sheninigans who was relucatant. In season 1, finale the professor was almost caught. In season 2, someone actually kills and innocent person and does something drastic in the season finale. In season 3, the professor is killed and one of those misfits has near death experience. In season 4 Jack the ripper is introduced and season 6 part 1 finale Sherlock holmes makes an appearance. People petition RDJ to play sherlock holmes and the famous marvel alumni producer even drop a hint it might could be, but it ends not being RDJ but a random actor. But Jude law or the UK office guy makes a cameo in season 7. Then in after an abyssmal season 8 and the series ends in season 9, with Netflix says a spin off series is going to be launched in the metaverse platform that they recently acquired called Snap, which will attempt to provide an interactive detective and crime investigation experience platform that dynamically changes the TV show as the users participate.
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