the first few episodes were interesting then it became yawn producing as it went along. still, i plodded on and binge watched the 10-part series for lack of a better alternative on a dreary Saturday night, since I was too lazy to do anything except hunker down on the couch wrapped in warm blankets to fight off the winter cold.
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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