A besúgó

After first 2 episodes, so far so good. Blackmail, self righteous socialists, drama, good looking girls, and perfect 80's setup.

Budapest is beautiful. That shot of him arriving and looking over Danube river, is gorgeous.

One thing, the handler, he seems a bit naïve and insecure. Usually, at that level, they are smarter than that. Let's hope it won't be his undoing.

Was taken from the beginning of this series.

I like the 80's and at the same time interested in what happened on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

The series is well timed in both speech and image.

It will be full pot.

The characters in the series are great. The actors play very well, bringing the roles tailored to them very well.

The story is interesting and action-packed.

The only thing that causes some disappointment is that the characters are too close together. Too much is a coincidence.

But it is absolutely the best series since the golden life /Aranyélet/ I have seen from a Hungarian director.

Overall excellent show, great acting and directing.

The secret police members are depicted a little too primitive. Most of them, who managed informants were much more sophisticated, did not need physical force to threaten their subjects. They found something to blackmail you just like in the movies. Very often multiple people were recruited to report about each cell and that way they had a quick sense if some did not report everything.

For me the biggest flaw is the naming of the school the students attending. In Hungarian they call it " Gazdasági Egyetem".

Nobody, I mean nobody called that school gazdasági egyetem. Its name was Közgazdaságtudományi Egyetem and everyone referred to it using its shortened name "Közgáz". This is quite a big flaw, for someone who was a university student in Budapest in the mid 80s this makes the show somewhat unauthentic. They could have used this in the original language version and for the foreign subtitles the " school of economy" would have worked.

But I can hardly wait the next episode, very well written and all the props are truly authentic! Great job!

I've just finished watching the last episode and I can know say that this was one of the best shows I have seen in a while. Great story and astonishing acting. Does an excellent job portraiting comunist Hungary with barely noticible flaws.