The Sheikh

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.

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?