The Spiders - Episode 2: The Diamond Ship (Die Spinnen, 2. Teil - Das Brillantenschiff)

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The intensely silly spectacle of competing blundering murderous international thieves continues. A clairvoyant is hypnotized (clearly psychic overkill) to reveal the location of a treasured diamond, leading both sides to go after the gem (that was stolen by yet another gang of blundering murderous international thieves). When the two sides meet, the outcome is obvious when we learn the ruthless gang is incapable of devising any more efficient means of extracting information than “Hunger and thirst will make you talk”. But no, the plot doesn't thicken - it disintegrates, rapidly losing what little value it possessed as the prominence of the femme fatale fades, the hero's smugness becomes increasingly irritating, and the story gets more convoluted. Just one thing grows clearer: the reason this is the Fritz Lang silent you've never heard of.

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The Spiders (Serial)

  1. Episode 1: The Golden Sea
  2. Episode 2: The Diamond Ship

Episode Details:

The Spiders - Episode 1: The Golden Sea (Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See)

While in hot pursuit of conspicuous leisure, a delusional elite spots a bottle trashed in the sea. For no apparent reason, he takes it home and struggles to get to the urgent message he has convinced himself is inside (not wanting to simply break the valuable trashy bottle). He claims the bottle contained an urgent message (although its pedantry seems quite incongruent with the circumstances under which it was purportedly written). The message tells of “unbelievable treasures” and a gold mine “which appears to be inexhaustible” (claims that modern viewers will be familiar with from their encounters with the bottle's cyber-twin: scam spam). When he spins this tale to his fellow elites at Club Inbreeders, it gets picked up by an agent of a diabolical gullible mastermind, and leads to an intensely silly spectacle of competing blundering murderous international thieves - with one posing as White Savior - that modern viewers will be familiar with from their encounters with its political-twin: the new “Cold War”.