The Sheikh (TV Series 2022– ) Poster

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6/10
Enjoyable, but the last episode is weird
jares16 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
As Fabian Riedner's review clarifies, you'll get seven episodes with fun plus an unfinished ending which may (or not) pretend to continue with the story on a second season. But, it would be difficult to maintain the core of the plot as any return of The Sheik himself is implausible. So, I degraded my 7 or 8 initial rating because stories with a no satisfactory final (whatever it be) disappoints me, a lot, as it feels as wasted time. My 6 stars mean I enjoyed it, but am not willing to watch it a second time. Good characters and acting.

Now, mine is the first review as nobody has contributed before. Why am I asked to write 600 characters? Short and precise should be better than long and boresome. Well, it's done.
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1/10
Dear god, no
laduqesa5 November 2023
Based on a true story? I don't believe it, at least not in the way it's portrayed here. I have to admit I deleted the lot after episode two. I'm furious with myself for letting things get that far.

Just about everything that could have been wrong actually was wrong. Awful acting was one of the worst failures. The two junkies in particular, were ludicrous parodies. The series couldn't make its mind up as to whether they were crack or crystal addicts. Either way, they were incorrect and stupid caricatures.

I get it that this was meant to be a comedy, but, in its exaggerated acting and over-the-top situations, it failed to convince and wasn't funny.

Don't waste hours of your life on this.
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8/10
A wild German series about a lovable con artist
jonwoodh14 September 2023
I love this show. It's weird, wacky, often fun and dark with a rising count of dead bodies, and a great satire on greed and the lure of great wealth. Supposedly inspired by true events, in The Sheikh we come across a unique con artist called Ringo (Björn Meyer), who is viewed as kind of the bumbling village idiot in his rural German town. He's married to Carla (played by Petra Schmidt-Schallerp who starred in the German cop series "The Marnow Murders"), who has a wealthy scheming father. Somehow Ringo is able to reinvent himself as a billionaire Arab sheik from Qatar and con his way through Switzerland, even into the Swiss parliament building, as the banking elite swoon around him dazzled by lure of riches. It ends on a bit of a cliff hanger, so many there is a season 2 coming?
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