Kleo · Season 1 · Netflix
Kleo Season 1
Kleo Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.4/10. 8 episodes on Netflix from 19 August 2022.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Kleo arrived on Netflix in August 2022 and immediately drew comparisons to Killing Eve - another stylised thriller built around a lethal, charismatic woman navigating a world of institutional betrayal. The series is set in the final days of the GDR and the chaotic months after the Wall falls, grounding its revenge plot in a specific historical texture that German television rarely serves up this entertainingly. Jella Haase carries the season with a performance that earned her the Deutscher Fernsehpreis and the Jupiter Award for Best Actress: Kleo is funny, cold, and volatile in roughly equal measure. Critics at the 92% Rotten Tomatoes mark noted the season's confident visual grammar and its refusal to flatten the moral stakes of its premise. The Grimme-Preis went to the writing team.
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The Room
“Once you get beyond its derivative aspects, this East German revenge thriller is a lot of fun, thanks to Jella Haase.”
The Times“Kleo may not be the first to do it, but it is nevertheless an entertaining, highly stylised and cinematic adventure.”
The Guardian