43 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestAfter nearly coming to blows with the communists, Geri and Száva take their fate into their own hands.
Behind the Iron Curtain, Geri leaves for college, looks forward to meeting girls and partying and joins a group of radicals led by the charismatic Száva. But Geri has a secret. He’s an informant of the totalitarian state and to save his brother, he’s been forced to spy on his new friends for State Security.
Acting
Váradi's sweaty, desperate performance as a snitch who likes his victims.
Production
Budapest locations that feel suffocatingly authentic to 1985.
Writing
The excruciating party scenes where everyone's laughing at the wrong things.
Creator
Bálint Szentgyörgyi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on real Hungarian secret police files; thousands of young informants like Geri actually existed. The show's paranoia is inherited trauma.
Creator Bálint Szentgyörgyi's father was a monitored dissident; the series was greenlit by the same state-funded network that once employed actual informants.
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