‘Babylon Berlin’ Concludes Final Season Amid Reflections on Weimar-Era Parallels

Goodbye to Babylon Berlin, the 1920s TV drama that has eerily foreshadowed real-life politics

The long-running drama reaches Hitler’s rise to power in its final season as its creators reflect on the unsettling parallels between Weimar Germany and the present day It’s the global hit TV series that pulled audiences straight into the chaotic hedonism of 1920s Germany, dramatising the brilliance and brittleness of a newly built democratic system with unprecedented ambition. But in the 13 years that the German makers of Babylon Berlin have worked on the show, modern democracies from the US...

By Deborah Cole in Berlin