In his new crime series, “Rats,” Slovakian writer Miro Šifra not only tells a gripping tale set in theThe fact-based drama examines the dynamic world of the Czech-Vietnamese meth syndicates, funded by cryptocurrency and monitored by police drug enforcement task forces. The story focuses on David, a hapless young drug dealer, played by Cyril Dobrý, who is forced by a narcotics investigator into becoming a police informer. Despite his willingness to cooperate, things don’t go as planned.
Šifra didn’t want to just make “another crime show in which a murder would happen in the beginning and the detectives would catch the killer in the end. I wanted to talk more about people in extreme situations who keep failing because they are overestimating themselves. It’s a family drama, a character portrait, that just pretends to be a detective story.”
“I think viewers have enough crime dramas from the English-speaking world. I believe that the local environment, if shown truthfully and honestly, has its audience appeal.” “When you’re writing for multiple audiences, there’s always a risk that it won’t entertain any of them — but somehow, we’ve managed to balance it here. I know from the reactions of Czech viewers that it is a series that was watched by the YouTube and Netflix generation, which does not own a television, and at the same time by their parents.”