Eric M. Stryker Ph.D.

I could not get through the first episode. There was some really unbearable scriptwriting - overly overwrought. For example, the protagonist is in a cab with a bunch of musicians whose rehearsal she crashed uninvited and in a span of sixty seconds, there's a litany of banter about selfies at the monument to the murdered Jews of Europe, an imaginary monument to murdered homosexuals and gypsies, the political troubles of contemporary Israel, the protagonist having half of her family murdered in the Holocaust, and a reference to Nazis. This is childish writing by someone who clearly has no experience actually living in contemporary Berlin or Germany. People don't talk this way. This is exposition, not dialogue. Nevermind that a runaway Orthodox girl from New York just seemingly made new best secular friends in the span of one day in Berlin, it's not even clear what this is supposed to be trying us about her character or theirs. At best, the contrast to the Israeli character is slightly interesting.