#martyisdead

#martyisdead is a Czech thriller webseries that was released on 20 October 2019 Mall.TV. It was created in cooperation with CZ.NIC, filmed by the Czech company Bionaut. It deals with cyberbullying and was inspired by real events drawing inspiration from Blue Whale Challenge. Plot The series unravels story of a ninth-grade student Marty, who becomes a victim of cyberbullying. Martin dies during car-accident at the beginning of the series and his father Petr Biederman finds out from Martin's facebook profile that Marty was blackmailed by someone who pretended to be a girl named Eliška Svobodová. "Eliška" convinced Marty to send her video of him masturbating and then used it to blackmail Marty giving him various often horrendous tasks such as killing family dog by putting him in freezer. Petr starts to investigate on his own as police practices are too slow. He gradually unravels Marty's story and events that led to his demise. Cast Jakub Nemčok as Martin „Marty“ Biederman Jan Grundman as Petr Biederman, Marty's father Petra Bučková as Alena Biedermanová, Marty's mother Sára Korbelová as Kristýna, Marty's girlfriend Matěj Havelka as Kryštof, Marty's friend Andrej Polák as Marty's teacher Jan Zadražil as a van driver Klára Miklasová as secretary Tomáš Bambušek as criminalist Broadcast The pilot episode was broadcast on October 20, 2019 on its website by MALL.TV; the remaining seven episodes were published one every Sunday until 8 December 2019. During the preparation of the sequel, the series received an Emmy Award nomination.