Eldorado KaDeWe

I had to come on here to see if I was alone in my thoughts

Into the second episode, and the location/action switches from the end of WW1 to an outside scene ablaze with modern day street I thought there was a timeline crossover which I'd missed, so by reading others on here it appears I have'nt, but it does show that its a cheap production if this massive error wasn't picked up in post production editing.

I will probably stick with it to see the outcome, as its only six episodes long, but if there is another series planned then I doubt it will hold my interest, and hope it shapes up before the end.

It started well, I was invested, the war, KaDeWe, history. I could ignore for the sake of art that the background was just the background today in Berlin, the graffiti, the cars, the people dressed in jeans and modern day clothing. I was watching it for the storyline and the main characters and as I said it started well. But then it focused on nothing but lesbianism. It wouldn't let go and move on, the viewer knew what part this played in the story but it was as if the production had the bit between the teeth and just wouldn't let go. If a viewer wants to watch this many sex scenes then there is soft porn available with hardly any more storyline to it. It's frowned on in that era, do we really need that point constantly reiterated? The storyline lacks one thing, and that is the whole storyline, it lacks emotion. It doesn't make the viewer feel anything. It tries to titillate but we've all seen this before. It steals parts of Babylon Berlin, not the emotion, but the Cabaret (again plagiarised) music hall scenes. It could have been so much better, it could have been interesting beyond the first episode.

As a lover of Berlin and its history I was looking forward to seeing this series but what a disappointment it proved to be. Street scenes with cast members dressed in the clothes of the 1920s but filmed with modern traffic and graffitied buildings undermined the whole production for me and destroyed any historical credibility. To say it was a deliberate artistic decision is disingenuous and takes the viewer for a fool - I suspect it was either a case of insufficient funding or just not being prepared to make the effort. I switched off after half-an-hour. If you value any shred of authenticity in an historical drama avoid this shoddy production at all costs.

It's embarrasing how they copied storylines from the much superior "Babylon Berlin" series. Also how they covered up a low budget by saying it's an artistic statement when you see modern cars and streetlife in the background. Well, if you're going to do that evetything has to consequently be mixed eras. Not just backgrounds on the streets.

I am a huge fan of 1920s Berlin, I have many books & i've watched tons of documentaries. I have seen every film there possibly is about 1920s Berlin.

This joke of the series not only copies stories from a different series, but you can openly see other modern cars lights & busses in todays Berlin. There is a Toyota car at the start, its just laughable.

The other laughable scenes that we see is today's zooBahnhof with modern cars driving around and we are expect to believe that it's 1920s Berlin.

Skip this altogether & wait for another production company to make something a million times better.