Happened to finish this drama, culminating in attempted gas attack on Berlin Hauptbahnhof, the day after the bomb attacks on the Brussels airport and train stations - it's "the new normal", as one of the characters refers to it. Loved the way our expectations are challenged as it opens - we're sure the bearded easterner (Atheel Adel) is going to blow up something, but he turns out to be an anti-Islamist hacker, one of the 'good guys'.
Series makes an excellent job of situating the events directly in reality, commenting on many aspects such as the Israeli involvement, faith, freedom of information and so on.
Scenes where Rupert Friend acts as terrorist assassin are great - we love seeing one blown up by his own pipe bomb, for example.
Claire Danes is astounding, Miranda Otto though is also terrific as double-crossing station head. Q was worrying about Rupert Friend every episode. Mandy Patinkin, F Murray Abraham, Sebastian Koch, Sarah Sokolovic, Nina Hoss, Alireza Bayram.
Actually it was season 6 darling!!!
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