I'll leave it to others to point out the fun. Here are the problems with the plausibility of the writing: publication of certain videos means Ellie's computer has been hacked. Not a word mentioned about where it came from, yet the last few episodes turns on this event. Ellie's character is portrayed as weak and weepy. Hardly the picture of a female cop. Male chauvinistic steretypes in action. If Gideon, the Austrian detective, was really believed to be passing information to criminals, he would have been suspended.

The show and the myth it delves into are great but all in all I can sum this up with one simple thought.... whether made in Germany or in America have a series with Winter walking around scoffing at everyone and everything and causally eating meals during extremely intense interrogations and I am ALL IN!!!

I enjoyed this series from start to beginning. The acting is great, I love that they did not try to cover the Austrian aeccent. The story is intriguing and surprises more than once. Overall a 10 because normally I find series from the genre rather dull - this one however got me hooked!

I would have rated 1-2 stars more if not for the false hope created by the people rating 10s (lol). The plot is slow, very predictable and the characters are fade and forgettable. Don't waste your time.

Can't believe it's a German-Austrian production. It's too good for it! Yeah the Story is based on series like The Tunnel, Bron/Broen or The Bridge only with a different border this time but anyway, the series have a stunning cold partly even ''Fargoesque'' scenery. Great camera movements and well placed actors. For a German-Austrian production it's a really magnificent work! Big up Wiedemann/Berg and Epo-Film!

The Pass is one of the best German-Austrian productions I've ever seen. Its mostly about its authenticity - I've watched the Austrian speaking parts with subtitles and original language, as they use the whole slang from Austrian people and sometimes its hard to understand. I like the german actor Franz Harwtig, who plays the murder. I knew him from the first German netflix series -Dark- Hes plays the role almost perfect. Nicholas Ofczarek, a Gomezes austrreat theater actor, is excellent and such an depressed detective. His whole acting is one of the best I've seen from Austrian Film for a long time. The German True Detective.

The pilot (the first two or three episodes actually) was great but sadly the series crashes in the end: too many characters, too many subplots, too many hints given and not developed. And that end... that stupid end. Unforgivable

I don't know about you ,do you notice small details? I do.Those small details defines craftsmanship. This show is made with love,its clearly visible.The creator put their heart and soul in it. From the mystical cinematography to Hans Zimmer's cryptic background score ,from each and every cast member doing their best to near perfect portrayal of a psychopath,this show excells at everything. Them germans know how to touch viewers heart by their art . Looking forward to season 2. Gideon and Ellie I ll never forget them. The change in contrast & chemistry between these two is one of the best on screen friendship i have ever witnessed,congrats on winning best drama series of 2020.

I am Bulgarian and I feel offended. Not because a "Bulgarian" is chosen to be the victim-criminal whose dead body triggers the action, but because there is no such surname as "Slowejko" in Bulgarian. To us it sounds idiotic. As if I tried to sell for German Ciprill Bzols or Philirp Stertne. In Europe you can literally put your head out of the window and shout: "Is there any Bulgarian out there?", and the answer will be "yes". And you can get the info you need in 3 minutes. I am a literary translator. I translate books. When I talk to younger colleagues about the basics of the profession, I start with: check everything. ONE sloppy mistake makes everything sound sloppy. You saved 3 minutes of work and you destroyed your credibility. It isn't the stereotype about what Bulgarians are and can be in this lovely European family of ours that makes you cheap, it is the fact that you don't even consider the Bulgarian line worth of researching. "Ah, some dark haired Eastern Europeans with funny names." Well, sloppy. Right now I am translating a book about Auschwitz. From Italian. My German is basic, so I check and double check the right way to put in Cyrillic every little monster's name. Is it because I respect or like them? No. It is because I respect and like my profession and my readers. And now, to something completely different. The series is boring.

Watched the first 5 episodes only, I don't know how it's going to end and nonetheless I'm not going to waste any more time on this (and btw, I watched it at 1,5x speed...). The thing is that if you've also watched a good 80% of the decently produced police dramas made in the last 30 years... you can't avoid thinking that "Der Pass" is just a dumb random cocktail of dozens of others stories with hardly anything original. While rating someones' work is a challenging endeavour (yet funny) with hardly any objective aspect, I have to surrender to the overwhelming feeling that "Der Pass" is trash. Maybe not a 2 - I'm uncompromising lately - yet I think its best part is the dysfunctional austrian detective's costumes - kudos to who picked them -. Still everything else feels like his coat: something dirty, smelly, used, abused and ultimately a waste of time.