Much like the series itself, which saw each season jump ahead three years,
Deutschland hasn’t always been the easiest show to keep track of due to long gaps between seasons. Now all three seasons have been collected in one box set (with a few bonus featurettes on season one and photo galleries on the others), but it’s still the original season that’s supreme.
Drugged and tricked into joining the HVA by his aunt, Lenora (Maria Schrader, who brings new meaning to the question, “If you can’t trust your family, who can you trust?”), Martin might’ve refused if it weren’t for his mother (Carina Wiese). She needs a kidney transplant and Lenora can get her the operation, but the decision’s essentially taken out of Martin’s hands anyway when he wakes up from a spiked coffee in West Germany.