Babylon Berlin, Season 3 (2020)

 

The third season is set in late 1929 around the Black Tuesday stock market crash and navigates the rise of the subversive Black Reichswehr and Communis political groups as well as the advent of talkies. 

The third season finally tones down the complexity of its plot a bit and strives more into the direction of solving a crime mystery, on its way giving a good impression of the German film industry of its time and the political undercurrents in Berlin; furthermore, still a top-notch TV production compared to what German TV has to offer otherwise.

Babylon Berlin, Season 2 (2018)

The true nature of the locomotive, smuggled into the country and hijacked by Russian counter-revolutionaries and re-captured by the state, sitting in a hangar in the middle of nowhere, is finally revealed.

Successful continuation of the story with equal quality in style, atmosphere, period detail and the same excellent cast finally wraps up its complex plot into a final, albeit twisty conclusion.

Babylon Berlin, Season 1 (2107)

A Colognian commissioner moves to Berlin, which is the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Unusually professionally made German TV series with great period detail, a sense for atmosphere and a large cast of good actors is fascinating to watch, but the complex and mult-faceted story with numerous sub-plots requires close attention and some historical knowledge and erodes any notion of suspense.