...but it's pretty entertaining and an easy watch in just six episodes.
The producers take some bare-bones history of the 1900 Munich Oktoberfest and gussy it up with Peaky Blinders-style violence, sex and gloriously squalid settings (as others note, production values are top notch).
The storyrunners do a good job of closing off most of the plot lines by the final chapter but things end on a somewhat ambivalent note - keeping the door wide open for season 2.
And please, watch it in German with subtitles - and maybe have a lager while you do.
Review of Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood
