27 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestMat realizes that he needs help and Monika must face an examination procedure.
Singer-songwriter Mat’s relatively normal life implodes when his depression takes the form of Monika, a woman that only he can see and hear – and whose sole purpose is to make his reality worse.
Acting
Nora Tschirner's Monika is gloriously, brutally specific.
Writing
Depression as chatty roommate: absurd, accurate, devastating.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of German 'Traumedy' series treating mental health with dark humor rather than after-school-special sincerity.
Nora Tschirner reportedly improvised much of Monika's cruelty, drawing from her own documented struggles with anxiety—method acting as public service.
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