Cancel Your Plans: Netflix’s Hit Crime Series Drops Season 2 Today
Netflix’s German crime hit Crooks is back—Season 2 drops today, and every episode is ready to binge now.
Well, if you blew through all the European crime shows in your Netflix queue, get ready to shuffle Crooks right back to the top. Netflix just dropped Season 2 of this German thriller series, and as of today, you can binge the whole thing. Yeah, they didn’t mess around — the new season is up in its entirety.
An International Heist Drama: Back for More Trouble
For anyone who missed it the first time, Crooks is inspired by the real-life theft of the Big Maple Leaf — that’s a gold coin worth $4 million, stolen from a museum in Berlin back in 2017. Season 1 launched earlier this year, pulling viewers into a mess of organized crime, bad decisions, and very unlucky thieves.
The creators haven’t switched things up behind the scenes — Marvin Kren returns as showrunner and director, so if you liked the style and pacing of the first round, you’re in familiar hands. The writing trio (Kren himself, plus Georg Lippert and Benjamin Hessler) are sticking around for Season 2 too.
Where We Left Off, and What’s Going Down This Time
A quick refresher: Whole thing starts with Charly (Frederick Lau), a guy just trying to fly under the radar with his family in Berlin. Of course, crime dramas don’t let dads retire — Charly’s old criminal contacts resurface and threaten his family unless he helps them pull off a high-stakes coin heist. Enter Joseph (Christoph Krutzler), a Viennese wheelman meant to get the loot across the border.
So, what could go wrong? Oh, just about everything. If you like heists that immediately go sideways, gunfights, and every European crime syndicate imaginable chasing two burned-out crooks across several borders, you’re in the right place.
‘Charly and Joseph are once again plagued by misfortune: the bloody coin is gone again! Once more, the two unlikely crooks find themselves on the run, this time through Bangkok and Vienna. Will they manage to protect their families, find the coin, and survive?’
That’s right: the prized coin has managed to disappear again, and our anti-heroes are straight back in the thick of things, hopping continents and dodging bullets.
Familiar Faces, Expanded Cast
The core duo is back (Lau and Krutzler), but Season 2 packs in even more supporting badasses and baddies. Here’s the lineup for anyone trying to spot their favorites:
- Svenja Jung
- Jonathan Tittel
- Brigitte Kren
- Lili Epply
- Lukas Watzl
- Georg Friedrich
- Florian Carove
- Mimi Tao
- D Gerrard
- Thomas Mraz
- Mark Ivanir
- Maya Unger
- Jan Georg Schütte
- Raymond Thiry
- Merab Ninidze
- Martin Zauner
- Marlene Hauser
- Lucas Gregorowicz
Not a short list, and if you’re a fan of face-spotting across Euro TV, you’ll be kept busy.
Should You Watch?
If you like kinetic chase scenes, criminals who can’t catch a break, or you just want an action-drama that isn’t set in the US or UK again, Crooks is an easy recommend. The real kicker? The whole production pulls on real-world details about the Big Maple Leaf heist, but turns the chaos up to eleven.
Crooks: Season 2 is streaming now. Try not to lose any $4 million coins while you watch.