Aranyélet

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.

Probably the best Hungarian series I ever watched. Thanks for the creators who dare dream big after Terapia.

The visuals are great, most of the pictures are colorful but still clear. They recorded on several locations with different tones so every time you can lost a little bit searching smaller things from your own experiences.

The story sometimes slow but it is never boring. Characters are unique and the worst actor is at least good, Renato Olasz is great, Zoltán Seress is amazing.

I am looking forward the next seasons hopefully they can keep this high quality for a long time. This is the first time I can recommend a home show without doubt. I think it can even be compared with any good American dramas. 10/10

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.

I'm also very proud of the show, as it sheds light on the corruption in politics in my country where freedom of press is heavily suppressed, media is bought up by oligarchs close to the ruling party, and as such, government propaganda is everywhere.

A big part of the show, in fact its main theme, is showing the lives of such a family, where the father has (and gets) ties to various political and financial characters which enables him to further increase the quality of life for his family members - wife and two kids.

It's displayed in a very entertaining way however, as the other part of the show is about character development, interpersonal relationships, etc.

Thanks to HBO the production quality is excellent and it stands its ground as an international program enjoyable by anyone in the world. Even the local streak (the corruption) can be easily understood by anyone and they can assimilate with it as corruption is in any country to various degrees.

The 3 seasons show drastic changes in the characters in every possible way. It's dramatic and exciting.

A side note: HBO GO allowed watching the full final series on the day of ep1 release, which is unique to HBO GO, as HBO itself shows one ep per week. It was a great touch and rewarding the fans of the series allowing them to binge-watch the final season in one go if they choose to.

I can only recommend it wholeheartedly. 10/10

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.