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Golden Life – one of the best Hungarian TV shows
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Golden Life (Aranyélet) is a Hungarian crime drama television series based on a Finnish series called Heippo elämä (Easy living). The series was produced by HBO Europe.
The show originally aired from November 8, 2015, to December 2, 2018, on HBO Hungary. The first season of the show was a big commercial and critical success, so HBO Europe renewed it for another two seasons, making it a complete unit. The entire third and final season was released via HBO Go in 2018, and it premiered on the same day on HBO Hungary and on all of the European HBO3 channels.
In the story, Attila Miklósi (Szabolcs Thuróczy) provides his family with a good, wealthy, and easy life in the elite suburb of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary. They earn their money from mostly low-profile criminal activities. When Attila’s father dies, he decides to give up his criminal life and way of living and tries to become a decent person, but this transformation challenges the very foundations of his family.
The 24 episodes follow not only the life of the head of the family, Attila, but also the life of his family. We get to know his wife Janka (Eszter Ónodi), the pampered wife who does not care how her husband gets her money, but she does not want to give up her comfortable lifestyle. We also meet their children, their older boy, Mark (Renátó Olasz), a typical rebel teenager who always thinks about forbidden things, and their daughter, Mira (Laura Döbrösi), who is the main representative of positive values in the family. Another main character is Endre Hollós (Zsolt Anger), who is Attila’s old-time friend and partner in crime.
