Netflix’s German-language series How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) opens with a kid in a bedroom, a laptop, and a plan to win back a girlfriend. By the end, that kid has become one of Europe’s biggest drug dealers. The show ran 24 episodes across four seasons, from its first air date on May 31, 2019, to its last on April 8, 2025. It is a crime comedy about a boy who builds something he cannot control.
Trailer, via Netflix.
Moritz Zimmermann and the Bedroom Business
The premise is small and specific. Moritz Zimmermann, played by Maximilian Mundt, is a nerdy teen. His ex-girlfriend Lisa Novak, played by Lena Klenke, is the reason he starts. He wants her back. So he starts selling ecstasy online, out of his bedroom, and the operation grows past anything he planned.
That is the whole engine of the show. A boy with a crush builds a business, and the business does not care about the crush. Matthias Murmann and Philipp Kässbohrer created the series for Netflix, and they keep the stakes personal even as the scale goes continental.
The cast carries the double life. Danilo Kamperidis plays Lenny Sander, the friend pulled into the scheme. Damian Hardung is Daniel Riffert. Leonie Wesselow plays Fritzi. Roland Riebeling and Jolina Amely Trinks play Jens and Marie Zimmerman, the family at home who do not know what is happening in that bedroom.
A Teen Comedy With a Body Count
What makes How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) work is that it refuses to separate the funny parts from the ugly ones. The show is filed under Drama, Comedy and Crime. The early episodes play like a startup story. The later ones play like a warning.
The show’s synopsis says the operation makes Moritz one of Europe’s biggest dealers. That is not a spoiler so much as the arc the series commits to. The kid does not stay a kid.
To win back his ex-girlfriend, a nerdy teen starts selling ecstasy online out of his bedroom — and becomes one of Europe’s biggest dealers.
That line is the show in miniature, and the series is smart enough to know the joke curdles. Four seasons is a long time to sustain a premise this narrow.
Why Four Seasons Was the Right Call
Netflix gave the series a full run: 4 seasons, 24 episodes, first aired 2019-05-31, last aired 2025-04-08. A show about a dealer who cannot stop has to stop somewhere, and the series gets to choose its own exit.
The German setting matters more than it might seem. This is not an American high school show with subtitles. The series is German, and the drug trade it depicts is European. Moritz is not a kingpin in a mansion. He is a teenager in a house with his father and sister.
That contrast is the show’s best trick. Jens Zimmerman, the father, has no idea. Marie, the sister, has no idea. The audience knows. The gap between what the family sees and what the viewer sees is where the tension lives.
The Numbers Behind the Rating
The published critical score for How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) is 7.9/10, based on a TMDB audience score of 970 votes. That is a strong number for a foreign-language series with a premise that sounds like a one-joke sketch.
It holds up. The show’s willingness to let Moritz become genuinely unlikeable is the reason. Maximilian Mundt plays him straight, and the character’s choices get harder to defend as the operation grows.
The show’s weakness is that it sometimes mistakes escalation for development. A bigger operation is not automatically a better story. But the series commits to its arc, and it gets there.
The Hard Numbers
- Title: How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)
- Created by: Matthias Murmann, Philipp Kässbohrer
- Network: Netflix
- Seasons: 4
- Episodes: 24
- First aired: 2019-05-31
- Last aired: 2025-04-08
- Genres: Drama, Comedy, Crime
- Published critical score: 7.9/10 (TMDB audience score, 970 votes)
- Cast: Maximilian Mundt, Danilo Kamperidis, Lena Klenke, Damian Hardung, Leonie Wesselow, Roland Riebeling, Jolina Amely Trinks, Leonidas Emre Pakkan
What the Show Gets Right
How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) is a show about a boy who wants his girlfriend back and builds a drug empire instead. It never loses sight of the bedroom where it started.
The 7.9/10 score is fair. This is not a flawless series. It stretches its premise. But it commits to its arc, and it does not pretend the crime is cute.
The show’s real achievement is that it makes the growth legible. Each season raises the scale, and the cost of that scale lands on the same small group of people. Moritz, Lenny, Lisa, Daniel, Fritzi — the show keeps them close even as the operation goes continental. That is the part worth watching, and it is why the 7.9/10 holds up.
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