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Main Characters
The group as a whole
- As Himself: They play fictionalized versions of themselves, although only Bruno and Oskar are established here as being working actors from the start. You also have to assume they aren't this bad in real life.
- Compulsive Liar: Since, as a Cringe Comedy, the show is built on Blatant Lies.
- It's All About Me: All of them show themselves to be amazingly self-centered much of the time.
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Played straight with Bruno and the twins (who do mostly terrible things, which are all Played for Laughs); downplayed with Leo (who's also terrible, but gets humanized a little more by the narrative) and Max (who's nice by comparison, but it's not a particularly difficult achievement).
- With Friends Like These...: Although generally supportive of one another, they will also screw each other over pretty much immediately given the chance.
Bruno
Played by: Bruno Alexander
Bruno is an actor with a lead role on a Crime Drama on a German public broadcasting channel, but has bigger ambitions.
- Attention Whore: Often takes charge of the conversation and enjoys being the center of attention.
- Former Child Star: Like his real life counterpart, Bruno used to star in the Kid Detective show Die Pfefferkörner as a kid; unlike him, it appears to be the most impressive credit on his resume.
- Likes Older Women: Decides he's had enough of dating "immature" girls and pursues middle-aged Alice.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He's quite convinced of his own qualities as an actor, prefers improvising to learning his lines and believes that him not getting picked for a role must have an ulterior motive.
- Sore Loser: Bruno really can't take not being on top. When Emil (posing as Oskar) outacts him and gets invited to a casting, he gets so jealous he reveals their Twin Switch; when he blows an audition, he blames it on being "too straight and white".
Emil
Played by: Emil Belton
Emil works as a delivery boy, but also shows an interest in acting. Is still obsessed with his ex-girlfriend.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Is the modern, cynical take on this trope, as he can't really fathom why his ex doesn't want him anymore and thinks it'll take just one Grand Romantic Gesture for her to change her mind.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: Has a Triple Nipple that he's rather self-conscious about.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Goes on opinionated rants and lectures Max on how relationships work despite his own with Marie being in shambles.
- Preferable Impersonator: When he fills in for his brother on set, he instantly does a much better (and more motivated) job than Oskar usually does.
- Schemer: The biggest one of the five. He repeatedly comes up with "great" ideas that he is utterly convinced will work until they blow up in his face.
Oskar
Played by: Oskar Belton
Oskar is Emil's identical twin brother (the older one by a minute) and Bruno's co-star. Even among his friends, he stands out as amoral.
- The Cynic: Doesn't take his job seriously and tends to be... pragmatic in his decisions.
- Handsome Lech: Tries to get with a different woman almost every episode, and has quite a bit of success as well.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He's particularly terrible to Keno, the nerdy son of his landlord who looks up to him. In both episodes with Keno, Oskar, despite barely hiding his annoyance, does something semi-nice at first (giving Keno advice on how to approach his online girlfriend after inviting her over; giving him the shield he finds during the LARP game, which enables the player to challenge in a duel) only to screw him over later (when the girl shows up, Oskar claims to be Keno; when he discovers there's a pretty maiden to be "won" in the LARP game, he destroys the shield while Keno's not looking).
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Sharing this trait with his brother, he also gives Leo and Max relationship advice (that boils down to "just wait until they come crawling back") although we only see him having affairs and one-night stands.
- Lack of Empathy: When he and Emil encounter a girl they used to bully, Emil feels at least a little bad about the incident, while Oskar's only concern is getting publicly cancelled.
- Really Gets Around: Unlike his friends, he has seemingly no interest in a relationship, preferring flings.
- The Shameless: Has few scruples pursuing his brother's or friends' love interests and even attempts a Bed Trick on Keno's girlfriend. When filming a sex scene, he's also got no problem running around on set wearing just a modesty pouch between takes.
Max
Played by: Max Mattis
Max wants to establish his own business with a clothing line. Quite awkward and timid, his girlfriend's ideas of a fulfilling relationship are significantly different from his own.
- Butt-Monkey: He's the most likely to end up in awkward situations that aren't directly his fault.
- The Drag-Along: Emil usually recruits him for his schemes. Max will complain at first, but go along with them in the end.
- Extreme Doormat: Whether it's his friends, his girlfriend or her father who want something from him, Max usually quickly gives in.
- Insecure Love Interest: Isabella's open-mindedness unnerves him. He turns out right to feel threatened though, as she eventually insists on an open relationship.
- Token Good Teammate: He's got his flaws, but he's not a straightforward Jerkass like the others. He genuinely tries to make his relationship work despite not at all sharing Isabella's attitudes towards free love.
- Uptight Loves Wild: He's conservative and inhibited whereas Isabella is free-spirited and adventurous.
- Wrong Line of Work: Starts his own clothing line and even gets Isabella's dad to invest in it. However, he clearly lacks the confidence and attitude to run his own business; he shows no salesman abilities when trying to peddle his product to stores, and when Emil criticizes the fit of his sweaters, he immediately attempts to stop the production.
Leo
Played by: Leonard Fuchs
Leo is a lazy slacker who's rarely in a good mood. Has a boyfriend of two years whom he cheats on.
- The Friends Who Never Hang: His lack of interaction with the other four is quite noticeable. The only time he has significant screen time with any of them is when he, Oskar and Max attend the LARP festival (even then the second half of the episode follows each of them separately). Otherwise you can literally count the number of times he talks to his friends on one hand.
- Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: Is the grumpy one in his relationship with the friendly, cheerful Florian.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: It doesn't take much more than a passerby smiling to get him riled up.
- Must Have Nicotine: Leo is the biggest smoker in the group and claims that he needs it to calm down.
- Out of Focus: He's the least featured of the main five by a good margin, due to almost entirely sitting out two episodes.
- The Quiet One: Leo isn't very talkative and usually doesn't get a word in during group scenes. Florian describes talking to him being like talking to a wall.
- The Slacker: Only seen working once, as a waiter. He only serves his friends and then sits down with them, complains about his boss within earshot, promises to do a better job only to immediately take a smoking break, and then abandons the whole thing when the others leave without paying and the opportunity to have sex arises. His room also consists of practically nothing but a mattress and a clothes rack and he's shown to be short on cash, suggesting he's just barely getting by.
- Sour Outside, Sad Inside: He becomes particularly irritable and aggressive after being dumped, but he's clearly shown to be hurting.
- Straight Gay: Lacks any stereotypical behavior, but his attitude (especially his heteronormative thinking regarding roles in the relationship) also suggests Internalized Categorism is definitely at play.
