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If you liked Killing Eve (and the female-assassin sub-genre), Kleo is for you. The eight-episode German series ticked all the boxes for us. From the murderer’s “this is my last job” hope to a desire to exact revenge on her tormentors, Kleo Straub provides all the classic themes and motifs we expect from the genre. But it is perhaps the context that makes the show particularly appealing: Kleo works for the State Security Ministry of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) on the eve of the fall of the Berlin wall. Her targets? Chiefly anyone East Germany considers an enemy. But like they say, no good deed goes unpunished and her dedication and loyalty to the state are unexpectedly rewarded with imprisonment in 1987. But Kleo is not one to accept her fate lying down — she takes it upon herself to find out who it was that sold her out, with many shocking revelations coming to light. Throughout her journey to her brand of justice, she makes more enemies, but also a few friends, and provides us viewers with an absorbing, bloody-but-sometimes-funny show to indulge in.

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