I can't wait for season 2. The acting is awesome. The storyline and music are also really good.

Other reviewers have already said some of the same things I was going to say. You have to watch it in its original German with subtitles if you don't speak the language. I looked at the dubbed English version afterwards and it was terrible. Made me laugh. The production value is so perfect. The acting, scenery and story just great. I think another user (Orwell Huxley) accidentally gave it a 1 when it should have been a 10, after reading the review. A definite watch! The last 10 minutes of episode 2 sold it for me.

The story and setting is quite unique and compelling for this day in age: Wiemar Berlin.Negative: The dubbing into English sounds poor. A previous person commented on this in some detail. Strongly recommend watching in German with English subtitles. Some aspects of this plot are unclear and the clarity would have been appreciated. E.g., our protagonist's hazy / barbiturate-affected recollection of being pursued by "the saint" that seems to be revealed more and more over the last handful of episodes. It sufficiently confused me to the point of wondering if he had actually retrieved the reel-to-reel tapes to which so many are subject to blackmail or if that was some sort of dream sequence / induced memory? Lastly, whoever translated the date of the battle in which our protagonist abandons his brother: in German it was November 4, 1918. The translation into English comes out as Nov 14, 1918, but the war had ended on November 11, 1918. Also some of the translations into English are literal and thus somewhat nonsensical, but this is a very, very small quibble with a well done series such as this.

This was a powerful, authentic feeling miniseries about Berlin just before "nightfall " in 1933. Very rich in characters, art direction and script, it was a tremendously compelling story. The ending was fitting and also powerful. Very highly recommended for anyone who enjoys an excellent historical story was told; much better than a "docudrama."