Season 1 – Berlin Station

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Jo M @Joanne678 Dec 28 Entertaining and very convoluted spy thriller requiring some dedicated stamina but worth it. Clever witty diagogue, great cast that seem to be enjoying themselves and easy-on-the-eye Richard Armitage delivering every bit of dialogue in his measured laconic style. That style actually gets a bit tedious but Rhys Ifans, Hugh Grant's ditsy flatmate in "Notting Hill" steals every scene as Hector the charismatic low-life conman/spy. A great bit of casting. A sleasy version of James Bond hasn't been done before. It might just be a winner with this versatile actor in the role. Michelle Forbes is as usual terrific. See more Lisa R @RT70282586 Sep 27 Berlin Station season one has to be a joke. Rhys Ifans is so over the top with his uber intense, smouldering scowls, pregnant pauses in dialogue to (yawn) literally die (of boredom) for. We jump around from story to story then in episode 2 early on we have an interval for Rhys Ifans to make a cup of tea, we watch a nasty cheap plastic kettle boiling. He is to be congratulated on pouring the water in so the little teabag tag remains outside the mug, dangling down. Inspiring. Valerie is hysterical in a 'secret' meeting at the top of an unfinished sky scraper wearing a black shiny Mac and white plastic safety hat! What a hoot.... Why is Steven Frost's wife showing cleavage and wearing push up bras? so false, so out of place (get it) at a dinner for his stuffy colleagues at home, you just wouldn't do it. Load of rubbish. See more Effy G @RT47324532 Aug 6 BRILLIANT !! Best Story, Directed, Acted and Produced that We've Watched for a long time. True to Life Drama. AMAZING. See more 09/03/2021 One of the best espionage shows I've seen. I love Homeland but from start to finish this may have been better. It has an overall stronger cast, though of course maybe not as strong of the main 2 characters. But the was more steady and more realistic, yet exciting and intriguing. You could say the same comparing it to The Americans. In it's execution in ways it is more similar to that, with better pacing. Again, a strong cast, but of course the two leads in The Americans were great. TURN was maybe the best spy thriller tv show that was highly underrated, with a deep strong cast, so in terms of those things it is similar. But this one hits on many topics, the politics, the risk, finding whistleblower (season 1) going deep cover to infiltrate (season 20, brink of war (season 3), etc. Very strong show. See more 06/27/2021 Why Deep State got such a high score on RT and this hasn't is a mystery to me: solid cast, pretty good scriptwriting, believable characters (mostly, I'll get to that later), great location filming, a nice blend of racy action with clandestine scenes in underground bars where contacts are made; what's not to like? Well, the characters are all good bar the comic book Chinese general (I work in China and speak some Mandarin; this character was lazy stereotyped writing at best and doesn't match up to the other better casting) and also the Mossad officer who sounds like she's trying to do a bad Russian accent and failing; she certainly doesn't sound Israeli. My only other fault is that the last episode didn't make much sense in its resolution; but to say more would plot spoil, there's enough here to make me watch the second season, unlike Deep State, which put me into a coma. See more 04/26/2020 The first few episodes were slow to start & directing was mediocre but things picked up by ep. 5 both with story + direction. End of S1 leaves you wanting more. Stellar performance from Rhys Ifans, See more Read all reviews

Berlin Station — Season 1

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