Rent Babylon Berlin: Series 4 (2022)

Excellent but sometimes inconsistent German series set circa 1930 - Babylon Berlin: Series 4 review by PV

This is always such a great fun drama, all series. The music and dance scenes take a bit of getting used to but they're fun.

Some extraneous plot threads here and in other series which are a tad distracting - NO SPOILERS. But the main character's relationship with a scientist etc. What progresses from that veers into science-fiction.

All interesting but not true - there was no WHITE HAND group,. The SA under Rohn were ended by Hitler in Operation Hummingbird, the Night of the Long Knives 1934 to consolidate power and address the concerns of the German military about the thuggish brownshirts, and that was the end of them.

Some sopay relationship stuff here can be trying but the characters are strong enough to get through it - the catty infighting of the upper classes was fun. And the whole fictional rocket stuff anticipate von Braun's V1 and V2 rockets aimed at London in 1944-5. After the war the Americans took von Braun over to work on their space rocket programme - because of the Nazis, the Americans got to the moon. Maybe they should have planted a swastika flag there too...

I liked the Jewish theme here and the derring-do about a diamond - all schoolboy comic in a way and the space rocket stuff is a tad Tintin, but why not? It's fun.

Anyway, enjoyable series Babylon Berlin, al 4 but I hope it stops there.

Watch with VIENNA BLOOD the rather excellent British TV series based on the novels, and maybe KaDeWe and Deutschland 83. And the great Generation War with the same main actor.

4 stars