#Series-1 seem uneven for me, 7 episodes each up to 70 minutes in length which is perhaps too long.
Despite that unevenness I found it was absorbing enough. I watched it with English-subtitles as my Deutsch is poor.
Sometimes there were double-subtitles if characters spoke Russian (Deutsch subtitles), which obscured the English subtitles, annoying.
Chaotic early scenes lead to more straightforward later episodes. Difficult to care for the cokeheads from these early episodes.
Somewhat difficult to see the relationships as anything other than superficial for most of the episodes, although the plot requires a blood-brothers type of connection to accept later plot twists.
Some twists are obvious long before they happen. At least once scene is incomprehensible. An earlier main character suicides in Episode-5, so it's somewhat a mess but somehow works overall.
It allows a few of the main characters to engage in philosophy at times, which is engaging for that genre.
One might think differently at Berghain, if sober, after seeing this :-)
Despite that unevenness I found it was absorbing enough. I watched it with English-subtitles as my Deutsch is poor.
Sometimes there were double-subtitles if characters spoke Russian (Deutsch subtitles), which obscured the English subtitles, annoying.
Chaotic early scenes lead to more straightforward later episodes. Difficult to care for the cokeheads from these early episodes.
Somewhat difficult to see the relationships as anything other than superficial for most of the episodes, although the plot requires a blood-brothers type of connection to accept later plot twists.
Some twists are obvious long before they happen. At least once scene is incomprehensible. An earlier main character suicides in Episode-5, so it's somewhat a mess but somehow works overall.
It allows a few of the main characters to engage in philosophy at times, which is engaging for that genre.
One might think differently at Berghain, if sober, after seeing this :-)