Deutschland 86

Being married to German woman and speaking some of the language as well I was pleased the German speakers weren't dubbed. We both enjoyed season one as it was set in the town where we live, not that we could recognise it.

We were excited to see a second season and it was just as good as the first. My wife's father was born in the East, before the war that is, he fought in Stalingrad and wounded there. So found himself in the west after the war and stayed there. The rest of his family remained in what was to become East Germany. She told me many stories of what it was like to visit them, her father was arrested once by a family member, undercover Stasi, because he was discussing the price and quality of cigarettes in the West, really.

So a lot of this series was pretty close to what it was like to live in the east. We are both hoping there will be a series around the fall of the wall, there is a fab story there somewhere.