Best movie of this year hands down!

Redundant and unnecessary.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

My feelings about this TV series are ambiguous. It's fun to watch and has a nice, grubby look to it, as well as a great, dishy cast. It also serves as a platform for great 1980ies music -- let me just tell you, kids, that not all Eighties music was that cool, a lot of it was terribly naff.The series is however in no way realistic. Quite often it's verging on insulting the intelligence of the viewer, such as when our babyfaced 007 contacts his handlers by phoning them ("Hello, I'm at their party as a top undercover agent and they don't suspect a thing! Oh no, I think someone has overheard me, creating further complications throughout the storyline!") or meeting them at a gas station -- of course, slipping back into the car just a microsecond before the general gets back in.Also, a sexy Asian assassin slash bit of fluff appears, gets thrown off a balcony onto a flight of marble stairs and just vanishes from the plot without a further trace. Fine by me!And I liked the persona of the main character, he's not your usual butch superhero nor an ingenu. He looks like he's been thrown into things.In brief, action and suspense in an unsual setting with a nice vibe to it. But nothing more.

Only the BBC would hail something like Deutschland 83 as cutting edge etc...Growing up at the time of the StaSi and the political situation during this time, it saddens me to see that the characters, although well acted, are stereotypes of bad party members and poor East Germans, good and innocent soldier and of course the obligatory west German fat cats.There are much better German dramas and series dealing with this subject matter and thankfully I receive German TV and can watch them but, I can't help feeling that once again it's playing safe and encouraging the current "continental opinions" of the BBC and it's obvious programming choices. I did however notice that for once the BBC didn't get the chance to show a series with the episodes back to front or the middle at the beginning and series three episodes in the middle of series one.....not forgetting putting the prefix "New" to a series that is over twenty years old.As mentioned it contains some very fine acting but an oh so predictable story line and quite frankly a very tiresome and well chewed political theme. It is easy on the eye, ear and brain for the US and UK market and should for this reason sell well .....so I wish the producers, writers and actors good luck but please "must do better" with the next project! It wouldn't hurt the BBC doing likewise either.

It seems strange to think now that when I was growing up Germany was divided; but it's in this world of my youth that "Deutschland '83" is set, when Ronald Regan installed new missiles in Europe and the world appeared to be on a perilous course. The series tells a spy-story, which also serves to illuminate the differences between east and west. It's well plotted and acted and does a decent job at conveying the spirit of the times, although it feels a little constrained by the fact that history has already decided who the good, and bad, guys were. It's not the most profound exploration of its subject, but it's a tense and entertaining thriller.

One of the best TV show I've seen in a long time! It's exciting,never predictable and amusing,you want more and more of it! I really hope they'll make a sequel 'cause 8 episodes aren't enough! I wasn't born in 1983,so I kept asking my dad for details,but I think they nailed it because everything feels so 80s and so credible.The ensemble cast is tightly directed to deliver credibility in what was an unbelievable time in world history. Costuming and locations are spot-on, and the series encapsulates the terror and the excitement of that year perfectly. The realism particularly of the atmosphere, offices, technology and mindset of the East German security agency bureaucrats of that era is so very well done. Highest praise. I'd be surprised if producers aren't eyeing an American re-make. Brilliant.