You Are Wanted
Matthias Schweighöfer's Amazon Prime German-language thriller about a hotel manager whose life is dismantled by an unseen attacker who plants evidence and reroutes his identity.
- Creators
- Matthias Schweighöfer
- Years
- 2017–2018
- Seasons
- 2 seasons
- Episodes
- 12 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- German
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Watch this if
Audiences who want a competent identity-theft and digital-stalking thriller in non-English. The show's most useful aspect is showing how mundane a target life looks when an attacker has banking, location, and communications inside one envelope.
Skip this if
Viewers wanting technical accuracy beyond what general-thriller TV usually delivers; the hacking sequences are stylized and the antagonist's capabilities are written as plot-required rather than operationally consistent.
Key takeaways
- The protagonist's powerlessness is the show's strongest argument: a normal person with no security background has no defense against a sustained adversary, and the show dramatizes that asymmetry well.
- The German production texture — Berlin, family-life realism, paced procedural — is a useful change of register from US cyber-thrillers.
- Season 1 holds up better than Season 2; the second season widens scope at the cost of the focused threat model that worked.
Notes
Pair with Mr. Robot for the high-concept cyber-thriller comparison and with Bad Banks (also German) for the contemporary continental thriller register. Worth watching dubbed or subtitled — the original German performance is sharper than the dub. A strong Saturday-night option, not a curriculum entry.