BABYLON BERLIN.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: TV - Television program review - Brief article

The dirty, stylish Netflix original series Babylon Berlin captures the foment of interwar Berlin with an appealingly bleak romanticism. Every faction--from the Trotskyists to the city vice squad--seems imbued with terrible purpose; each individual seems driven by a second layer of motivation that only becomes apparent as the series unfolds.

After the first episode, a complicated flow chart quickly becomes necessary to track the relationships between the nihilistic Champagne-swilling genderbent club kids, the unscrupulous police, the secretive out-of-towners, the pornographers...