Spy City

The setting is Berlin, 1961, when the city is partitioned and one can argue at the time it had most spies per sq mile.

While it's not perfect, it's definitely above average cold war thriller. It starts a bit slow, and takes 2 episodes to get into it, but once you do, I think you will enjoy it.

A love story, a revenge story, spy, lies, betrayals. All are abound. Music is not too bad, but could be better. I would have preferred to have a narrator to clarify a few things early on, but it wasn't too bad or too confusing.

Stick with it, as it's only 6 episodes long and you'll find yourself in a very interesting story.

I'll give it 8/10. I think for it to be 9 or 10, I would probably preferred a bit different ending and perhaps s few more details about certain characters.

Overall, I enjoyed it.

Convincing performances, tightly woven script, beautiful "retro" cinematography takes you back to the tense and grim Berlin of 1961 Berlin... the only shortcoming is that there are only 4 episodes--- when do we get season 2 ???

Another reviewer has said in a negative way, everyone's a critic. Isn't that the point of allowing comments? If someone doesn't like what they saw, their opinion is perfectly valid and if they take the time to explain why, probably even more so.

I have watched two episodes, the second was slightly better that the first.

Not convinced that Dominic Cooper makes the most convincing spy, especially in the first episode fight scene, the choreography was appalling.

I also feel that there is something odd going on, continuity is somewhat questionable, some costume choices strange both for the period and the setting, and I have yet to feel any empathy for any of the characters.

As I said the second episode was a little better and it's probably worth waiting for the next. If there's no improvement I won't care about it enough to carry on.

It just turned me off immediately after I watched the 1st episode. How could it possible that the guy wearing such trendy late 20th Century to 21st century suit like that?! It's just too modern, too unrealistic for the 1950s. If a drama series failed to do the correct costume; such a basic requirement, then the whole series is just a bust!

A moderately complex plot of quasi-realistic Berlin espionage shenanigans, with extra bullets provided just for juvenile video gamers. Both character and story development take more than the first episode. Give it three episodes to get sucked in. If you enjoyed Das-Re-Boot, then you will probably like this, which has more broad appeal, and fewer subtitles.

Dominic Cooper gives quite an enjoyable performance of serious material, unlike the disjointed ad-hoc goofball malarkey dished out by Seth Rogan in Preacher.

All the casting and performances are very good. The production values are top grade for TV -- a big nod of approval to the Czech crew. Locations and set design are excellent, but furniture and wardrobe design are exceedingly up-scale for the setting, as if being the only options available in the prop warehouse.

There are wonderful transition pieces with brief clips of Berlin from the actual story time frame. However, the color temperature / white balance, gamma curve, and color saturation of the old footage could have easily been adjusted to look closer to the image parameters set for the production.

For me, it was a binge watch -- sapio-tv. I wish there were a second series.