The drama series about the life of Patty Brard gets really bad reviews from the newspapers. Both de Volkskrant and NRC give two stars. “It’s very stiff.”
Celebrity friends run away with it, but independent reviewers don’t find it worth watching: the drama series about the life of Patty Brard. After the rather negative comments in RTL Boulevard – Rob Goossens thinks the series looks very cheap – the television diva is now also being visited by the national newspapers.
Superficial
The AD gives the Videoland series about Patty only three stars, but the Volkskrant and the NRC are really ruthless. They only award two (!) stars. In other words: they think it’s rubbish. “Enough dramatic series material in ‘Patty’, but the scenes are superficial and the dialogues crooked,” headlines de Volkskrant.
Reviewer Herien Wensink believes that director Will Koopman switches between time periods too quickly. “As a result, the viewer regularly loses the sense of chronology. The rapid changes also mean that scenes are only sketched superficially, and their dramatic impact remains limited.”
Unimaginative
The Volkskrant reviewer is surprised that the dialogues are so poor, because five writers are involved. “Every conversation, every confrontation is thought out without imagination.”
Herien thinks it has a lot of TV Canteen vibes. “Why does 38-year-old Eva van de Wijdeven play a Brard in his sixties? It leads to unfortunate hassle with wigs and make-up that more often repels than convinces. Even the charismatic Van de Wijdeven cannot play away her facial prosthetics.”
‘Not good’
Wilfred Takken, the reviewer of the NRC, simply calls the series ‘not good’. “The family drama is the most dramatic part of the series. But it comes late and is not properly developed. What also doesn’t help the series is that Will Koopman has thrown the episodes into the blender and keeps jumping back and forth in time.”
That has no function whatsoever, he writes. “On the contrary, it is confusing and emphasizes that various phases of life actually add nothing.”
Unrealistic
A.DReviewer Peter van Brummelen is slightly more moderate and gives three stars. “As a viewer you have to get used to the atmosphere (which is much more subdued than you would expect in a series about noise parrot Brard), but you quickly go along with it.”
But the scene where a young Patty tries to bleach her skin? According to him, it is set far too firmly. “In the series, half a bottle of chlorine is simply emptied into the bath. That is not very realistic, to say the least.”