Chanced upon this on MPLX while channel surfing today and decided to stick around to pass off the boredom on a lazy 4th of July. I remember watching this film more than 20 years ago with my friends & classmates at SM Centerpoint in Sta. Mesa after the end of a grueling exam week. The mall is just a few minutes' walk from UERMMMC, the best medical school along Aurora Blvd. ;)
The first time i tried watching Babylon Berlin was about two years ago when i was scrolling through Netflix's recommendations for new series to watch. I tried an episode or two but it did not pan out -- possibly because every time i tried to watch the series, i was always already on the verge of drifting to dreamland. But #Covid19 changed everything so that instead of spending my free time outdoors, i find myself indoors most of the time now -- ergo, more TV time for me. Thus, in the last week of May i found myself being confronted by Babylon Berlin on the Netflix homepage once again and decided to give it a run over. And this time around it had me hooked from the moment i re-watched the first episodes that i was able to finish all 3 seasons of the series in less than two weeks. I loved the visuals and the music, and it even had a little bonus -- revisiting my rudimentary knowledge of the German language and practicing its pronunciations once again. Set in 1920s Berlin and the las...

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