Aranyélet

10/10 in the Hungarian league, 8/10 in international level.

I have to admit i have seen only season one, but i do not see it as the depiction of the "Hungarian Reality" as so many reviewer does. But rather as an enormously good satire of the Hungarian swindlers who had their gold age in the turmoil of the 90's, they kind of got addicted to their routines, and they fail to realise, that the world in which they flourished shrinks to be a petty one. Like commit a life endangering, prison worthy crime for 1M Huf? (3000 Euro) In 2015? Serious?? Or parking the car everywhere, with a disability certificate, and it all serves as a status symbol? (For any possible reader from outside the postcom region: it is a status symbol, as it shows you managed to pay off the medical staff) Hillarious. So originally East European, so sourly funny. Why still 8 instead of 10? Because it resonates too well with the "you cannot make it in the right way" postcommunist worldview. And it is rather harmfull, here in Hungary. It is not realistic, and i even dont think, the series is about it. But it still conveys this message for almost all.

Honestly this is the best Hungarian siries of all time. I would like to recommend it to everybody to watch it! Great script, great acting, great directing, great directing of photography, great music, great everything.

Thank you for making it.

Storyline is quite good, it gots sense, acting of the majority is good... It's quite slow as well, too much time wasted on dull dialogs, while the final of the seriers is AMAZING! overall 9/10 But also. .. Mira acts indecisive in the beginning ,so irritating, then she becomes a star! Atila is quite soft on acting, then wakes up, Mark was quite harsh, then he explodes in emotions, nobody expected that, i am sure. GOOD GAME WELL PLAYED HBO AND CAST!

This show is the best hungarian show ever. And I think currently one of the best shows in Europe. Why?

Because this series is brave to show the hungarian reality. Which is a brave move. It reveals all of the crimes, life-hacks,lies, nonchalance that happens every day, down the streets, and up in the luxury apartments.

It shows what is the life feels like in East-central-Europe. You live rightfully and poor or you do live with cheating, lying and perhaps, you get rich. Or you can go to a foreign country, and the people of the country exploit you. The truth seems like that way.

The morality is so strong point in the show. Attila, the father, who gives up his criminal career (like an anti-Walter White), but his past and his environment always pull him back. Janka, the mother, who never wants to give up her luxury lifestyle. She wants her lifestyle, want her family's livelihood, doesn't matter what it takes. Márkó, the son, wants money and money so he join to his godfather's gang and taste the darkness of the crime and power. Mira, the daughter after she finds out his father's crime she starts drink and party hard and escape from her family. A family will tear apart.

The series makes it with style, with tension. Great performances, spectacular cinematography (too much drone shot in the pilot, maybe).

So professional, if I were an American I wouldn't believe it's not an US's HBO product. So professional, so European, so hungarian.

I cannot wait till the second season arrives.

Well deserved 9 points on Imdb ! To my knowledge, this is the first hungarian series ever to be aired in America. Watch,- you won't be disappointed.