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A crying shame there aren't even English subtitles for this excellent series. Be the way, it gets really good in the second season.

Part, I repeat part of the brutality and corruption of the DDR regime is revealed in this high class soap opera. But love triumphs in the end, and some pretty creepy people redeem themselves. But rest assured, the excesses were intrinsic in the structure that was the artificial hothouse of East Germany. Who built this hothouse is not the subject of the series, and the two mainly responsible powers are not even mentioned.

Annoying, for me, is the piling up of contrived crises in the first season, but that's how the public generally wants it. In this respect "Breaking Bad" is no different.

Having grown up in the 1980s GDR, I recognize many aspects and character types of this well-researched show. The '80s and later the transitional reunification are portrayed very well - from an elite's perspective. Weißensee is, after all, where the elite lived.

But this is not bare entertainment. The storywriting and character development are intense and extremely tragic. The show hooks you on despair and sadness, with few light spots. That's a fair warning, because they really show all the dark aspects of a dying GDR, spiced up with family drama taken to 11.

Decent actors and character development.

This is a series about life in the DDR during the 80s and just after the wall came down. The replication of the atmosphere, attitudes and everyday life in the former communist "model state" feels very authentic. A family drama about the various perspectives living in the totally surveilled and controlled totalitarian state.

The characters feel very realistic, you can easily identify with all of them. Both the bad and the good guys. This series is a very natural watch for those of you that enjoyed the 2006 masterpiece "Life Of Others". In this series the everyday drama including both joys and sadness is very engaging and realistic. And everything encapsulated in the STASI state where no-one can really trust each other and even your very closest family might be your biggest traitor.

There are many strong and realistic moments and one of the most memorable is when a STASI officer and his wife is counselling with a family therapist about their relationship and marriage. And when the counseling doesn't go in the direction the STASI officer wants then... you can imagine the total claustrophobia here..

I could go on and on raving about this fantastic series. So don't hesitate, go and watch it now!

Ok, we admit to come clear... we did watched this serie in 3 days and now we have S3 to see. This is really a very good serie about how it was in those days.

Nobody could trust anyone. No one had any privacy.

This to keep the system without commercial market mechanisms etc intact. But by doing that, it corrupted the system itself. Inequality in powers is what one also can observe in todays world. Within corporations, etc.

All in all, go see this serie! Great acting, good directors work, good music, etc etc.

Also nice the way the set lights are done, old 80's style. Same with the cliff hanger stills and bits and props ...

For the last time; do see this great serie!

You love binge-watching? It hardly gets better than this German serie about East-Germany in the '80. It's on Netflix and a must see. Storytelling takes you up & down like a rollercoaster.

The life of people of the DDR is shown very realisticly. Jörg Hartmann did an amazing job playing Falk Kupfer.

First year's 6 episodes were hard to watch, because of mediocre acting and script. Keep in mind that it's set in the at that time very poor DDR. Second year is much more credible, with the same actors. Historically correct!

I never wrote a movie review before but I had to drop a few words about this wonderful series. I am very demanding when it comes to natural and convincing acting and I was deeply impressed buy the cast of Weissensee, specially Florian Lukas, Jörg Hartmann and Anna Loos. I also loved how the director took the time to take us deep into each character, by the end of the 4th season you felt like you really knew the deepest thoughts of every single one of them. I am very thankful to know now more about what really was going on in the DDR from the side of the people that went through it, and also so happy to keep discovering more and more great german actors. 10 deserved points and two big thumbs up for Weissensee!

We watched all four seasons on MHz and there are English subtitles. I would like to seen another season as only one of the recent story lines was concluded in Season 4 episode 4.

Nothing happened! Sleeply, dazed..poor production standards. It seemed that someone decided not to try and make it 'interesting'. Kind of like an afternoon show....if you get what i mean.

God I loved this so much more than I thought I would. Please continue. I want to know more about every character. Every actor was phenomenal and the stories were compelling. That makes you want to learn a lot more about the GDR.

Cast, directing and scenery all excellent. I enjoyed watching and cannot wait to see the next season. Great work!

This gripping series does a magnificent job of showing the terrible human cost of the East German regime on the lives of families. The acting is uniformly excellent and there are many truly heart-rending scenes involving deceit and divided loyalties where individuals were forced to choose between their loyalty to family and their "duty" to the pathological state.

It starts in 1980, when the SED was at the height of its malignant power and focuses on the love affair between a young Volkspolizei officer and the daughter of a dissident songwriter. Needless to say, their love is highly disapproved of - not least by his brother (an ambitious Stasi officer).

Very highly recommended!

I was a little put off by poor production quality.

I recommend it to everyone who knows and who doesn't know the life in the communist times. Also the problems of the reunification, and why there are problems till today between east and west, are so good described here... and the storyline is wonderful! I loved this series, it made me reflect on many society issues. The characters are so well made, that you hate them at some point, then you start to sympathize with them towards the end (Falk). Everyone had positive and negative points, like in real life, and you understand the background of everyone's actions. I weeped a few times during this series.