6.049 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestCristina tells Rux the truth about her relationships with Moscu and Andrei. Following the outcome of Liliana’s mayoral campaign Moscu decides there is only one way to get his dream project off the ground, but at what cost to his family....
Reliable 30-something Rux’s plans to leave Bucharest to join her long-distance lover in LA are upended when her boss assigns her to his wife’s mayoral race and pairs her with a know-it-all colleague.
Acting
Raluca Aprodu carries every scene with exhausted determination.
Production
Bucharest locations feel lived-in, not postcard-pretty.
Writing
Dialogue captures the specific humiliation of creative underemployment.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
HBO Max canceled this in 2022 during their international content purge, making it essentially lost media.
The show captures a specific post-2010s Romanian moment: EU mobility, creative class precarity, and the fantasy of American escape.
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