Tatort Berlin. This duo is apparently being phased out, which is a shame because it is one of my favorites. After years of watching, I suddenly fell in love with the 'short investigator' (famous actor) after one episode in which he fell in love with a gallery owner. I became slightly obsessed with him then and still retain a fondness for him now. He also did his wonderful thing of being with the victim -- silent solidarity, looking soulfully into their eyes, etc. Dreamy.
Berlin looked pretty cool in this episode, too. Some aerial views of the city looking stately and ordered: lots of nature scenes filmed by the victim/suspect's dacha in Potsdam. Not the usual graffiti-filled, dirty Berlin we usually see on TV and it even caused me to recall my six years in Berlin with something like fondness.
Every time an actor I didn't recognize appeared on the screen I rejoiced innerly. Getting so tired of the same old people in Tatort. Then a minor villain appeared -- had just been in a recent Tatort. Bummer. The victim/suspect's ex-girlfriend just looked inexpressibly sweet. I suppose I have seen her in other things but the face was new to me. And the victim/suspect was a man with one facial expression only, but an expression that was VERY WELL DONE and I did not get tired of looking at it!
In the middle of the story, my brother called and I put everything on hold. At the end, my daughter came down (ten years old!) and we watched it together.
Final note of recognition: the man's childhood room in the Potsdam dacha looked exactly like my husband's childhood room in his father's house in Kiel. Totally authentic. 'Holzverkleidung', posters, slanted walls, simple, unmatching furniture. Definitely a German boy's room! Loved it.
Berlin looked pretty cool in this episode, too. Some aerial views of the city looking stately and ordered: lots of nature scenes filmed by the victim/suspect's dacha in Potsdam. Not the usual graffiti-filled, dirty Berlin we usually see on TV and it even caused me to recall my six years in Berlin with something like fondness.
Every time an actor I didn't recognize appeared on the screen I rejoiced innerly. Getting so tired of the same old people in Tatort. Then a minor villain appeared -- had just been in a recent Tatort. Bummer. The victim/suspect's ex-girlfriend just looked inexpressibly sweet. I suppose I have seen her in other things but the face was new to me. And the victim/suspect was a man with one facial expression only, but an expression that was VERY WELL DONE and I did not get tired of looking at it!
In the middle of the story, my brother called and I put everything on hold. At the end, my daughter came down (ten years old!) and we watched it together.
Final note of recognition: the man's childhood room in the Potsdam dacha looked exactly like my husband's childhood room in his father's house in Kiel. Totally authentic. 'Holzverkleidung', posters, slanted walls, simple, unmatching furniture. Definitely a German boy's room! Loved it.