O Informante

After first 2 episodes, so far so good. Blackmail, self righteous socialists, drama, good looking girls, and perfect 80's setup.

Budapest is beautiful. That shot of him arriving and looking over Danube river, is gorgeous.

One thing, the handler, he seems a bit naïve and insecure. Usually, at that level, they are smarter than that. Let's hope it won't be his undoing.

Overall excellent show, great acting and directing.

The secret police members are depicted a little too primitive. Most of them, who managed informants were much more sophisticated, did not need physical force to threaten their subjects. They found something to blackmail you just like in the movies. Very often multiple people were recruited to report about each cell and that way they had a quick sense if some did not report everything.

For me the biggest flaw is the naming of the school the students attending. In Hungarian they call it " Gazdasági Egyetem".

Nobody, I mean nobody called that school gazdasági egyetem. Its name was Közgazdaságtudományi Egyetem and everyone referred to it using its shortened name "Közgáz". This is quite a big flaw, for someone who was a university student in Budapest in the mid 80s this makes the show somewhat unauthentic. They could have used this in the original language version and for the foreign subtitles the " school of economy" would have worked.

But I can hardly wait the next episode, very well written and all the props are truly authentic! Great job!

Very good work, you get drowned into the movie, like a time travel experience, so realistic. You can catch some parallels between then and now, seems that history is repeating itself time by time.

Was taken from the beginning of this series.

I like the 80's and at the same time interested in what happened on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

The series is well timed in both speech and image.

It will be full pot.

I hope the quality of the first two episodes will be maintained until the end. This is an excellent series, great story so far, top notch acting and superb production values. I shivered frequently because I was forced to remember my youth and the strange ambiente of Hungary in mid 80s. There were some moments which can be deeply moving for somebody who lived through those years. The pub scenes with live music were causing me a great shock, 'cause it was so authentic I am unable to put it into words. Sharp memories came back, I never experienced anything like this before. Awesome!