ZU ASCHE ZU STAUB: Babylon Berlin

Third season is finally among us! Put your hand in mine!

thought this show was pretty awful tbh

weeeeeeeee so glad it’s back just finished ep 1

I have always loved how everyone in this show (except the very wealthy obv) all look tired & unwell, kinda sweaty, bags under the eyes, hair unwashed

The details are very good

The nephew gives me strong Augustus Gloomp vibes

every time i watch this show, i get 2 episodes in & think hmm maybe i want to learn german

maybe i want to learn german, u guys

Do it! I'm close to finishing my rewatch, and while I still love it and am pumped for season 3,there are some major plot points that I'm finding irksome the second time around.

Loved this at the time, when does Season 3 drop on Now TV?

Yes !
Love this show !
And indeed the attention to details is fantastic, especially in the poorer parts of the population.
It all FEELS so bleak and dirty. And the tension and rising menace in the whole society is so well done.
I barely speak German but can understand the simple parts and enjoy so much hearing them talk, especially Lotte (who is amazing ** SPOILER ** I was genuinely sad/shocked when she died in s2 and actually considered stopping the show !).

And that song/sequence in s1 is arguably one of the best musical sequences EVER in a TV show !

The song is in my head which is quite an achievement given I haven't watched it in 18 months or so.

I had forgotten that Bryan Ferry randomly shows up to do a musical number in season 2

Yup and he was the curator for the soundtrack iirc ( which is also part of the greatness of this show).

Some of these plot lines in season 3 are ludicrous but I'm enthralled. Two more episodes to go.

No spoiler please ! (but I'm glad to know it's still good !)

This show has been all about ludicrous plot lines from the beginning, and I'm here for it. I just finished my re-watch of the first to seasons, and the season 2 finale really piled on the absurdities.

I need a refresher on a bunch of the characters for season 3! Who's the guy with the birthmark? Didn't Gereon bust up Moki Efta last season?

<3 <3 Lotte.

Birthmark guy is the heir to Nyssen AG, supporter of secret re-armament, sometime lover of Sorokin.

There was a big shootout in Moki Efta, but it's still running strong.

S3 is absurdity city; kerazy ott so far

OK this is a decent rundown of the first two seasons: https://www.vulture.com/2018/02/babylon-berlin-netflix-how-it-ends.html

I want to discuss all the ridiculousness, at least for the first 2 seasons, but I'm not sure if this is a spoiler friendly zone or not.

can we talk about how beautiful & mesmerizing the credit sequence is

also i love that this season includes movie making & ~the occult~

it really is very good

but i fear my boy Rath is going to be 2 hollowed out eye sockets by the time this shit is done, dude looking deeply unwell now

Charlotte's sister went through a bizarre growth spurt in just a few months.

I was wondering who her new friend was in the first episode!

I didn't realize season 3 has 12 episodes.. assumed it was 10 and was all mad when I realized I wasn't done and had to go to bed at 10:30 last night

It kind of sucks to be a patsy in Weimar Germany, huh?

I could never figure out how they danced like that to music with no beat

fuuuck that was a brutal depressing ending.

i had to watch the end twice, i was so high on cold meds i *didnt* see the dragon the first time lol

Overall theme of this show =
Berlin to Rath: take a beating?
Rath: don’t mind if I do

Katelbach, you knob! Shut up and eat your goulash!

Season 3 seemed to dial back the insane plots and lowered the stakes a bit, which didn't completely work for me, but was still fairly entertaining.

yeah I did kinda miss CRAZY TRAIN vibes but i wasnt mad.

It's funny because everything about the train was insanely over the top, but that was part of the appeal.

it is a high bar to keep in place once you go there

I enjoyed the hell out of the first season and started on the second season a few months ago. The plane flight episode got ridiculous toward the end and really took me out of it. When you guys say "over the top", are you talking about stuff like that? I've always regretted not finishing, but at the same time don't want to punish myself.

Just watched the first two episodes and really enjoyed them. Intrigued and excited to see how it goes “over the top” because at the moment it’s still a pretty straight (if epic) procedurally

*procedural

I still haven't watched s3 (not available in France yet) but the OTT aspect never really bothered me in this show (ok, maybe the "insane"/hallucinations etc moments got a bit on my nerves after a while).
S the train, plane and other dramatic moments (the second Severija song for instance), although not the best parts obviously, were fine.

Season 3 not really bag, it turns out. :(

Is "not really bag" a German expression?

NEIN!

ES IST HIER! ES IST HIER! ES IST HIER!

I think season 4 aired in Germany last year, so maybe Netflix US will get it sometime this year?

There was speculation it was coming late last year, but still no confirmation.

i demand another season goddammit

The nephew gives me strong Augustus Gloomp vibes

AUTOGUS GLOOMPS FOR PRESIDETN.

Since there's no knowing when s4 is coming to Netflix, I'm starting up KLEO, which is basically BB: 90s edition.

So this is being dropped from Netflix at the end of the month, don't know if that is good news or bad. I hope it means another streaming service will pick it up and air the final 2 seasons.

fingers crossed

really would love to see those final 2 seasons for sure

it’s too good to just be lost to the ether

I've pondered getting a multi-region DVD player just so I can watch s4

for people in the US, season 4 is available on MHz Choice, which has a free 1 month trial

I see a 1-week trial.

https://mhzchoice.com/freemonth/

Woah, thanks!

ooh thx

Looked into this more, the free trial is for a week, the free month is when you sign up for a year. Also, only 2 episodes are currently available, they are rolling out 2 per week through the end of July.

That said, I still signed up and watched the first episode and it's dark as fuck. Seems like everyone is letting Charlotte down.

Finally started watching this. On Hoopla, which is one place it landed that I have access to.

oooh hoopla you say? :D

Yeah.

So I can watch ten episodes a month I guess

Or 1.25 seasons a month.

I had to watch season 4 on MHz Choice

The subtitles were much lazier than on Netflix.

Two episodes in. Seems pretty good so far.

I wanna re-watch this, I thought it was such a great show when it first came out... even a Brian Ferry cameo ifirc