6.043 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestThough Victor's intel proves useful, the German police and CIA are left scrambling when a second target emerges. Amid the chaos, Victor and Frank attempt to neutralize the attackers, and make a last-ditch effort for Victor's escape to America.
During the height of the Cold War, Victor Godeanu, the right-hand man and closest advisor to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, and secret agent for the KGB, must escape Romania and Ceaușescu before his cover is blown. Helped by an undercover Stasi agent and an up-and-coming CIA agent, Godeanu must elude the KGB and his own country’s spooks, fully aware that his defection is putting his family back home in mortal danger.
Acting
Secăreanu's sweating, seething desperation in every scene.
Production
Bucharest locations that scream 1980s Eastern Bloc authenticity.
Writing
Ceaușescu as petty tyrant, not cartoon villain.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Creator Adina Sădeanu's father was a Romanian diplomat who actually defected in 1988—she grew up in this exact paranoia.
The real Ceaușescu was executed by firing squad on Christmas Day 1989; the show's timeline inches toward this historical inevitability like a horror movie countdown.
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