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Társas játék (, a play on társasjáték, "party game", sometimes also When Shall We Kiss?) is a 2011 Hungarian remake of the 2007 Israeli series Matay Nitnashek. It was the second original series of HBO Hungary after Született lúzer (Born Loser), and the first serialized one. The series follows the relationships of six Budapest residents played by Dorina Martinovics, Kornél Simon, Móni Balsai, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Lia Pokorny, and György Gazsó. The series is produced by Eleonóra Peták, the lead director is Gábor Herendi. The lead writer of the 2011 first adapted season was Réka Divinyi, while that of the original 2013 second season was Andrea Vészits. The first season of 13 episodes aired between October 23, 2011 and January 8, 2012. The second season premiered between October 6 and December 22, 2013 and consisted of 13 further episodes.

Cast and characters

 * Regular cast
 * Dorina Martinovics as Léna Havas: advertising professional
 * Kornél Simon as Dávid Rényi: suitor of Léna, advertising professional
 * Móni Balsai as Judit Béres: wife of Iván, lover of Dorka and Professzor, mother of two, make-up artist
 * Szabolcs Thuróczy as Iván Béres: husband of Judit, lover of Gabriella, boss and lover of Léna
 * Lia Pokory as Gabriella Lővey: friend of Judit, employee of Antal, lover of Iván, accountant
 * György Gazsó as Antal Hegedűs: suitor of Gabriella


 * Recurring cast
 * Juli Básti as Rita Havas: mother of Léna, actress
 * László Gálffi as Paul Ferenczy (season 1): foreign suitor of Léna
 * Adrienn Réti as Tímea Varga (season 1): girlfriend of Dávid
 * Ildikó Tornyi as Dorka: friend of Léna, lover of Judit, masseur, personal trainer
 * Patrícia Kovács (season 1) and Andrea Petrik (season 2) as Laura Lővey: sister of Gabriella, model
 * Ernő Fekete as Professzor (season 2): husband of Flóra, brother of Milán, lover of Judit, and doctor of Léna
 * Nóra Parti as Flóra Dobó (season 2): friend of Judit, mother of two, actress
 * Dorottya Udvaros as Lívia (season 2): lover of Milán, businesswoman, boss of Judit
 * Tamás Szabó Kimmel as Milán (season 2): brother of Professzor, lover of Lívia and Léna, gambler
 * Laura Döbrösi as Petra (season 2): employee of Dávid
 * Anikó Varga as Viola (season 2): girlfriend of Antal
 * Péter Rudolf as Ferenc Vadas: biological father of Léna

Plot
The show follows the often interconnected personal lives of six Budapest residents.

Season 1
Léna and Dávid falls in love with each other but the former girlfriend of Dávid, Timi announces that she is pregnant. To be able to provide a better living for his future child, Dávid takes a better paying job that makes him a coworker of Léna at the company of Iván who is the lover of Léna. To escape this situation, she starts looking for her father whom she never knew but she is disappointed with the man she finds. In the meantime, she meets Paul who is willing to take her with him abroad. Timi offers Dávid to abort their child but miscarries before they could decide. Dávid breaks up with her. Léna consciously misses her plane and helps her mother to prepare for a role in a commercial. The woman dies after the shooting is finished. Dávid and Léna finally share a kiss.

Gabi is unsuccessful with men because her large nose. She arranges a blind date with Léna's boss. Iván is married and his wife, Judit—who is friend of Gabi's—starts to suspect that her husband cheats on her, and in turn begins a lesbian affair with Dorka, a masseur. Gabi decides to go under plastic surgery so that she can meet with Iván outside their dark hotel room. During anesthesia, she falls into a coma, therefore the surgery is not carried out. Her boss, Antal—who is in love with her—takes care of her phone, answers to Iván's text messages and poses as her suitor in front of her family. Gabi's sister, Laura tries to seduce Antal, unsuccessfully. Upon her awakening, Gabi realizes that her lover is Iván and that Antal loves her, a feeling she reciprocates. Judit breaks up both with Dorka and her husband, and starts a new relationship.

Season 2
Léna and Dávid—who are living in a happy relationship—decide to start up a new marketing company. Dávid takes Léna out cycling in the mountains but she suffers an accident and is taken to the hospital with spinal chord injury. Whilst she blames Dávid for the accident, she develops feelings for Milán, the brother of her doctor, who poses as a patient. When Dávid exposes Milán's lies, Léna initially gets mad at both of them. When she realizes that Dávid's secretary is in love with Dávid, Léna drifts towards Milán. Milán's older lover breaks up with him. Dávid tells Petra that he has no feelings for her, and saves the honour of Léna's family to win back his former girlfriend. When Milán is forced to leave the country, Léna decides to stay in Budapest with Dávid.

Gabi is pregnant with Iván's child. As sheis bored with her life with Antal, she tries to restart her affair with Iván but Laura sabotages her plans. When Iván shows up at Gabi and Antal's wedding ceremony, Antal leaves his wife-to-be, while Judit finds out about Iván and Gabi's relationship. Judit is in love with the husband of one of her friends, Flóra. The man is also Léna's doctor. Judit and the doctor move in together, but Judit's children are against their new stepfather. Flóra and Iván join forces to separate the two, so Flóra leaves her children at Judit's place too, and instructs them to misbehave. Eventually, Flóra and iván—who has been struggling with impotence—fall in love with each other, and Flóra gives up on her husband. Gabi proposes to Antal, but the wedding is interrupted again when Gabi goes into labour, so they marry on third try.

Development and filming
HBO Central Europe bought the remake rights for its territories of Dalit Kahan's When Shall We Kiss? from Armoza Formats—this being HBO CE's second Israeli format deal after BeTipul. During Spring 2011, the announcement was made that unlike in other HBO CE territories, the Hungarian remake of When Shall We Kiss? will precede that of Be Tipul. It was also announced that it would be the second television fiction show of HBO Hungary after Született lúzer which ram between 2007 and 2009, the first Hungarian production HBO had complete control over, and its first serialized original programming. By that time, the Romanian remake of BeTipul was aired but HBO Hungary mainly focused on producing documentaries, while the recession-stricken Hungarian TV landscape was dominated by reality shows, game shows, and soap operas. Relying on Kahan's story, the lead writer of the first series was Réka Divinyi, while the writers' room included Márk Bodzsár, Bernát László Czető, and András Szekér. Principal photography started on March 16, 2011 in and around Budapest with the participation of Pioneer Pictures. Seven of the thirteen episodes were directed by Gábor Herendi, and six by Gergely Fonyó, although both shot scenes for each other's episodes. Balsai and Tornyi's sex scenes were shot with doubles.

The first season of the Hungarian remake of BeTipul, titled Terápia, was aired in Autumn 2012. As Kahan's original series lasted only one season, for the second season of Társas játék original scripts had to be written. The first version was started in August 2011, based on treatments by producer Gábor Kriegler by a new writers' room—retaining Bodzsár—but the work was stopped after three months. The final scripts were written by lead writer Andrea Vészits, and writers Viktória Jeli and György Baráth over the period of one and a half years. The second season was officially announced on May 7, 2013, a day before principal photography started. The second season was filmed at twice as many locations as the first season, over sixty-four days. The directorial tasks were shared by Herendi and Péter Fazekas. Andrea Petrik took over the character of Laura from Patrícia Kovács due to her pregnancy.

Music
The crew paid special attention and larger sums on selecting the most suitable music for the episodes. The opening theme of the first season was sung by Odett, while the theme of the second season was "Játszanék veled" by Gabi Knoll & Anna Pásztor. The songs featured in the second season were released on two CDs by Magneoton (a subsidiary of Warner Music Group) on October 14, 2013. The liner notes of the album explain: "The creators selected the music to match the atmosphere of the series: it is set in the Budapest of today, amongst those now in their thirties. This predestined the musical style too: artists on the border of indie and mainstream music were chosen who can feel authentic even in such a quality series as this one. All songs were selected for specific scenes. The one song could remain for each part out of two or three options that fitted best the plot regarding its lyrics, pace, and even its artist." The album reached #1 on the MAHASZ Compilation Albums chart.

Track list of the season 2 soundtrack album:

Broadcast
The fist two episodes of season 1—after a red carpet premiere event in RAM Colosseum, Budapest on October 14, 2011 —aired on HBO Hungary on October 23, 2011, Sunday. The broadcast of these episodes was available to non-subscribers as well. The remaining eleven episodes were broadcast on Sundays until January 8, 2012. The first five episodes were available without subscription on HBO GO till the end of December 2011, while the remaining six episodes to subscribers only (at the time HBO GO subscriptions were only provided to subscribers of HBO Hungary at two small cable providers). The season had several reruns on HBO and remained available on HBO GO.

The first season had a two-day rerun on September 28–29, 2013 called Társas játék Marathon as a preparation for the second season debut. At the red carpet premiere event at RAM Colosseum on October 3, 2013 several celebrities were present with the cast, crew, and the press, including Szonja Oroszlán, Andrea Osvárt, Győző Szabó, Attila Till, Iván Kamarás, Claudia Liptai, Kriszta D. Tóth, Barbara Palvin, Zoltán Bereczki, and Tamás Frei, while band Budapest Bár provided entertainment. The first two episodes of season 2 aired on October 6, 2013, while the following episodes on Sundays until December 22, 2013. The first two episodes were yet again available on HBO GO without subscription.