Criminal: Germany
Criminal: Germany Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.4 | 8.3 |
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"A pressure-cooker interrogation drama stripped to its essentials"
Criminal: Germany takes place entirely inside one police interrogation room, where detectives face off against suspects in high-stakes crimes. Each episode is a self-contained battle of wits, built on a single conversation that shifts, cracks, and reverses as lies unravel. There is no courtroom, no chase, no music-video pacing, just tight framing, silences, and performance. It feels like theatre more than television: claustrophobic, dialogue-driven, and dependent entirely on the actors' ability to hold tension across thirty-odd minutes. Part of an anthology filmed in multiple countries, this is the German installment, sharing format but not story with the others.
the intense two-hander performances that turn a single room into unbearable psychological pressure.
you want visual variety or plot happening outside one interrogation room.
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All Seasons

| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Jochen | 8.1 | 794 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Yilmaz | 7.4 | 670 | 41 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Claudia | 8.3 | 696 | 45 min |