Season 1

Pastewka, Season 1 — watch online on iFILM, eight episodes of the German sitcom that premiered on Sat.1 in 2005. Comedian Bastian Pastewka plays a fictionalized version of himself: a recognizable face whose life keeps going quietly wrong.

Cologne is the backdrop. Season 1 builds the whole world from scratch — the cramped flat, the odd friends, the chain-reaction embarrassments that turn minor slip-ups into full-blown disasters. Comparisons to Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm came immediately and were not unfair: the comedy runs on observed detail, not plot mechanics. Guest appearances from Anke Engelke and Christoph Maria Herbst signal that the show had real ambition from episode one. Stream Pastewka Season 1 all episodes online on iFILM.