The series stars Edin Hasanovic, Murathan Muslu, Peri Baumeister, Anna Herrmann, Sahin Eryilmaz, Richy Müller, Erdal Yildiz, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Slavko Popadic, and Carol Schuler. The main problems lay with the characters themselves and their lack of development, and the story that is just barely contemporary enough to keep you interested, even when you can guess what is going to happen next. The trick is to introduce characters that a viewer can ally with and enjoy yelling at and then have them do things that cause the viewer to yell even more. Catharsis can be great fun, unless it starts to feel like work.Baumeister owns the pilot. She elevates every scene she's in and every actor she plays against, brings music and truth and a whole person to even the least promising line.
The show may be about a rapper who's become illegitimate, but legit on Netflix is very often dull; in future weeks, I hope it stops obeying rules and starts breaking them. The series' sudsy premise might work if it were matched by more energy in the acting and staging, but the presentation suggests we're supposed to take the action seriously. Most viewers will simply shrug. The trappings of Skyline suggest that it's a risk-taking enterprise, but in many ways, the drama feels strangely inert, as if the creative parties involved couldn't quite agree on a vision for the show and ended up settling on a least-common-denominator. While the busy first hour scarcely has time to set a premise and lay down a beat, it promises all the glitter and heightened emotion its genre mashup implies, if it can keep its pathos from sliding into parody. If the creative team discovers what works and what doesn't and smooths out the dialogue tonally, Skyline could become an engrossing, old-school family soap. Good performances, good tunes and an engaging pair of lead characters give Skyline the potential to be a great show, but it'll need a little more studio polish first. It would be cool if the show evolved into some messy stealth masterpiece, its many mismatched octopus arms thrashing toward something tremendous. Six episodes in, outsized ambition isn't enough. As the Magic 8 Ball says, "Ask again later." There is so little frenetic energy that you know the show won't be able to keep it up forever. And as subsequent episodes sadly prove, it can't. If episodes of The Get Down are like Cadbury Creme Eggs, then episodes of Skylines are more like potato chips crumbs -- a dull, flagellant assault on the senses best enjoyed no more than once a lifetime.
Simon says Skylines receives:
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