In dealing with this threat, Daniel offers some befitting Trump side-eye to youthful Estonian glue-huffers, while elsewhere, a European representative at a secretive international security meeting demands to know if she’s been brought there to hash out “the two percent thing, again.” These issues, brought up in the background of the show’s action, are probably familiar to US audiences, but the backdrops themselves-a remarkable set of locations and builds across Europe-are likely less so.Ĭonfronting the ramifications of on-the-ground international relations is far more visually arresting when these matters come to a head in an opulent nightclub, or an oligarch’s dacha, or even a grand old Berlin altbau apartment. Analyst-turned-undercover officer Daniel Miller (Richard Armitage) and his deputy chief Robert Kirsch (Leland Orser) are off to Estonia, where a younger agent, Rafael (Ismael Cruz Cordova) has almost certainly uncovered a covert Russian invasion.
#BERLIN STATION TV SERIES#
office, spy novelist Olen Steinhauer’s first television series works hard to examine the moral gray area of international espionage, as well as the real-world implications of complex ethical decisions made by well-meaning spies out in the field and less well-meaning career politicos in cushy, distant offices.Īfter taking on the German far right in season two, Berlin Station’s third season turns its gaze to the East. In depicting the inner workings of a fictionalized Berlin C.I.A. operatives of Epix’s Berlin Station have found themselves mired in complex situations wrought by any number of familiar cranks and villains-internal whistle-blowers, far-right political parties, Russian thugs, mysterious hackers, and the list goes on.
On one of the very few scripted television dramas to reflect the current global political climate, the covert C.I.A.
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