Boxing Clever: racial tensions, intrigue, neo-Nazis and soccer — so much to like (in a TV series) here

— and Enda Walsh’s short film Touch is an eight-minute gem

Dogs of Berlin

I think you’ll like Dogs of Berlin (Netflix). We stumbled on it after a recommendation from our European Crime Thriller Consultant, aka a woman on the parents’ WhatsApp group who share s our taste in European Crime Thrillers. It’s about two cops investigating the murder of Germany’s best footballer the night before a key match against Turkey. It has racial tensions, intrigue, neo-Nazis and soccer. So much to like here, particularly if you’re a bloke, although my wife is a fan as well .

Two things in Dogs of Berlin stand out for me. The first is that it’s shot in Berlin. I’m allergic to period dramas or stuff set in sterile American cities these days  —  all I want in this lockdown is something that shows me lingering shots of European cities that I’d like to visit. Dogs of Berlin has that in spades , even if a lot of it takes place in parts of town that will never make it onto a postcard.