TV Review: Kleo Season 2 (2024)

Kleo Season 2 (2024) created by Hanno Hackford, Bob Konrad, and Richard Kropf

See my review of the first season here.

Kleo (Jella Haase) is back in action pursuing a red case that has valuable documents in it. With German reunification imminent, a lot of the old-line communists in Germany and the Soviet Union want the deal to fail, something the contents of the case can facilitate. Kleo teams up again with the somewhat bumbling Sven Petzold (Dimitrij Schaad), a West German cop who is too focused on grand conspiracies and is a bit smitten with Kleo. Kleo's crazy roommate Thilo (Julius Feldmeier) has discovered his space princess (he thinks he was born on another planet), a relationship that somewhat mirrors Kleo's relationship with other characters while also going off on bizarre, drug-addled tangents. So the show still has a mix of revenge drama and oddball comedy, especially with the introduction of some ambitious, if not entirely competent, Russians and Americans.

The show is still entertaining. The plot is enjoyable yet implausible, but in a good way. The actors keep things fun and engaging even with some off-the-wall shenanigans. The ending definitely hints at more to come and I am willing to follow along for another season.

Recommended.

As I write (February 2025), this is only available streaming on Netflix.