Should you watch Babylon Berlin?
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Babylon Berlin
Series · 2017
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
The sides of Babylon Berlin
- A Cologne detective in 1929 Berlin
- A young typist who wants to join the police
- Nightclubs, drugs and rising Nazis
Babylon Berlin is good for you if…
- you want the Weimar years before the Nazis took power.
- you like 1920s Berlin streets and clubs rebuilt in rich detail.
- you like a detective caught between drug rings, gangs and crooked police.
Babylon Berlin is bad for you if…
- you won't read subtitles for a German series.
- you lose track of police, gangs and political plots across five seasons.
About: decadence · corruption · trauma
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