I'm 6 episodes in and I'm hooked. Incredibly stylish, intriguing and keeps you thinking. 1929 Berlin comes alive and soon you are captured by it and the romanticism of the city overtakes you with its original mix of unique characters and beautifully decorated city streetscapes and the CGI shots of Alexanderplatz look too incredible to questions its authenticity.
You feel you have a strong connecton to both protagonists, one a hotshot ambitious detective who comes from Cologne and copes with PSD FROM WWI and a young smart hustling prostitute named Lotte who will do anything to get to the top. She is very charming and beautiful and it's easy to be captivated by her every appearance on screen. Every episode keeps you yearning for more, kind of like the Sopranos. Babylon Berlin is a stylized cosmopolitan German equivalent to Boardwalk Empire, but glitier and more eye - catching. The Roaring Twenties dance numbers are mesmerizing and memorable. In some ways you wish you could be taken back to that period of Berlin and experience it for yourself.