Babylon Berlin Seasons 1 & 2 Kino Lorber

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Originally Posted by James Luckard

I should add, there are two facts to note:

- "Seasons" 1 and 2 are the contractual name for the first miniseries, which consists of 16 episodes.

"Seasons" 1 and 2 are one continuous narrative, were filmed as one unit and were broadcast in Germany and released on Netlfix as one miniseries. I'm sure it's just a contractual thing that they are labelled as individual "seasons."

The second run of episodes, what most viewers would consider the second season, is technically "Season 3"

Shouldn't episodes 1-16 be considered the first season?
and episodes 17-29 the second season?

Originally Posted by James Luckard

For those who are wondering, Season 3, which was put together VERY quickly after the massive success of the first miniseries, is nowhere near as good. The narrative is too thin, uncomplicated and boring to justify 12 episodes, and most of the more interesting side characters were

[Show spoiler]killed off over the course of the original 16-hour minsieries

, so we're pretty much left with just the two leads and some uninteresting new characters. Also, in Season 3, they are clearly trying to play the standard TV game and delaying bringing the two leads together romantically, so they constantly create silly situations to keep them apart, including devoting an inordinate amount of time to

[Show spoiler] a pointless romantic triangle between the male detective lead, his grating, shrill common-law wife (who is also his brother's widow) and an insane business tycoon.

I agree with your assessment. I wouldn't go so far as to call it boring, but it's
nowhere near as sexy or edgy as episodes 1-16.

I read somewhere they're filming another season.

Originally Posted by James Luckard

- Because this was shot for German TV, it will unavoidably have to be slowed down from 25fps to 24fps. There is no way to release European TV in the US at its native frame rate, European TV BDs are 1080/50i so they can run 25fps, but American systems generally can't handle 1080/50i, so European shows are slowed down to 24fps so they can be presented in 1080p instead.

I've been watching the Netflix download. If there's a problem I haven't noticed it.