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Dance Brothers 3.7 2023 Show

Dance Brothers

Finland · Finnish

A tediously cliched dream-chasing series with dancing as mediocre as the writing

Netflix

Our take by Kerine Wint

At 20 minutes per episode, the story of two brothers trying to make their dream of becoming professional, industry-changing dancers a reality is surprisingly uninteresting. Roni and Sakke are chasing their big break, but Roni is rude to anyone who doesn’t think he’s transformative, and Sakke insists on sticking by his brother even as he ruins their chances. By the end of episode two, they’re offered a chance to open their own club and work with a suspiciously generous patron from their mother’s laundromat. But despite the compelling gist of it all, nothing holds attention. The dancing sequences are mostly a miss, and the story’s progression feels painfully by the numbers. If “chasing your dreams” is supposed to be the redeeming quality, the execution alone dismantles it.

What happens

Two brothers trying to make it as dancers open their own club, but their artistic drive soon clashes with the business, threatening their relationship.

More about it

What happens

Roni (Roderick Kabanga) and Sakari (Samuel Kujala) finally have a chance to realize their dreams but their personalities threaten to end everything before it starts.

What sets it apart

It's usually easy to cheer for the underdog, but with painfully shallow and generic characters, it's hard to care. Every dramatic beat happens so fast, and with no character development to support it, the dynamics become one-note. They also get no help from the supporting cast, who only fill the audio with flat dialogue and unnecessary soundbites. The era of dance films in TV has been gone for some years, and additions like this won't bring them back.

TL;DR

You could've at least put a good dance number in there...

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Kerine Wint

Kerine Wint

Kerine Wint is a curator at A Good Movie to Watch. When she’s not absorbed in anime and weird docu-series, she reviews speculative fiction for Fiyah Lit Magazine or designs album covers and magazines. As for her film taste, One Cut of the Dead (2017), The Lure (2015), Inu-Oh (2021), and Dear Ex (2018) sum it up pretty well.