Crime Scene Cleaner (Seasons 1–7)

Crime Scene Cleaner (Der Tatortreiniger, 2011) is a German dark comedy series to watch online on iFILM. Directed by Arne Feldhusen for NDR, with Bjarne Madel as Heiko "Schotty" Schotte — the man who shows up after everyone else has gone home.

Schotty's shift begins when the forensics team packs up and leaves. He comes in with his equipment, cleans what is left, and tries to work in peace. He rarely gets to. While mopping blood off someone's kitchen floor, he ends up talking to whoever is still in the building — a grieving relative, a weirdly composed suspect, a witness who cannot stop explaining, sometimes the apparent ghost of the person who died there. Each conversation drifts into the same territory: what any of it means, whether the dead person got it right, whether Schotty himself is happy. He is not sure. He still has to finish the job.

Eight seasons on NDR. Bjarne Madel makes Schotty one of the most quietly original characters in European television of the 2010s. Stream Crime Scene Cleaner online on iFILM.