The spy drama unfolds in and around the CIA foreign station in Berlin. Simmons-led Counterpart on Starz Netflix´s German sci-fi thriller Dark Channel 4´s Deutschland 86, and EPIX´s Berlin Station which has returned for the third season with Jason Horwitch of Rubicon and House of Cards taking over the showrunner´s duties. TNT´s 4 Blocks, the most expensive German television show in history Babylon Berlin helmed by Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries and Henk Handloegten J.K. Just for him, the show is well worth your time.The capital of Germany currently enjoys the status of a hot item as Die Hauptstadt features as the backdrop for many projects on the small screen. It's great to see an actor reduced usually to play the supporting parts having such a whale of a time with a dangerous and fascinating character like Hector De Jean. Playing a wily spy named Hector DeJean, Rhys Ifans steals the whole show, thanks to his sad/angry eyes and his drawl. On the contrary, where the series hit the bullseye is with Rhys Ifans (picture above). I know he is supposed to be clueless and overwhelmed by all that happens, but he lacks a menacing edge. Steven Frost is played by Richard Jenkins, whose credentials are proven, but who is a little bit too nice a grandfather for a chief of a ruthless spy station. Granted, Daniel Miller was probably never meant to be a very interesting character anyway, but Richard Armitage is for me not a great actor and it's difficult to keep our eyes on him. The casting is a bit disappointing as well. Everything eventually comes together rather nicely in the end, but if you don't have a great attention span and leave an episode pending for too long. After ten episodes, it's a bit difficult to keep track of all the double-dealings and the traps and the false friendships between German intelligence, Mossad, and CIA. However, this is also the first series which – in my opinion – would have been a great movie rather than a good series. As a spy series, it's not as good as Homeland or The Americans for example, but it's been a while we did not have such a clever story, well grounded in the contemporary world. kill him).īerlin Station is a rather good surprise. So much so that the CIA must send a special agent Daniel Miller (Richard Armitage) to find out who is Thomas Shaw and to put an end to his activities (i.e. Thomas Shaw is basically a kind of Edward Snowden (but we are past-Snowden, who is mentioned in one of two episodes) except that he seems to have something especially against the agents in Berlin and he keeps leaking more and more info about precisely that station, putting everyone at risk and on edge. Berlin Station is the brainchild of the American novelist Olen Steinhauer, who is a specialist of detective and spy novels, and as a good spy novelist, Olen Steinhauer has obviously pondered long and deep on John Le Carré's brand of spy novels where gadgets and gunfights are scarce but moral dilemmas and false friendships are legion.īerlin Station takes place entirely in Berlin, Germany, where Steven Frost (Richard Jenkins) runs a spy "station" which is coming under fire by Thomas Shaw, a mysterious whistleblower who knows way too much about the CIA activities and who wants to wreck havoc and reveal all the dirty secrets of the agency.
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