As the fourth season of Babylon Berlin just had its finale, we had a chat with Volker Kutscher (author of the original Gereon Rath books) about his third novel, the latest season of the TV show and the meaning of 1930s crime.
In the wake of the near collapse of the major streaming services in 2022, and parallel to the wave of retrenchment and belt-tightening, series though many of them commissioned before disaster struck still trended toward homogenization, most rolling off a similar conveyor belt.