Dance Brothers

Dance Brothers

TV-MA

netflix

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

3.7

TV Show

Finland
Finnish
Drama
2023
Fanni Noroila, Jeanine Muyima, Laura Lohi

TLDR

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

What it's about

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.

The take

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 stands out

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.

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