"The End of an Era": Streaming Start of the Final Season "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)"

Moritz is fresh out of prison and still considers himself a star. When asked if any media inquiries have come in, his family has a sobering answer. "There was just one inquiry from Netflix," his sister explains to him. "They wanted to make a movie about your life. Apparently, they can't think of anything else. I deleted it." You can tell: The new, final season of "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)" is a bit different. Starting Tuesday on Netflix.

Self-irony at Netflix: Final season from April 8

Not only because of such scenes does the series differ from many other productions. "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)" is ironic, fast-paced, detail-oriented, and always good for a meta-joke. Only there, in a fictional Netflix series that films the life of a teenage drug dealer, is a joke made about Netflix supposedly wanting to film the life of a teenage drug dealer.

Fans of such twisted jokes are likely to be pleased with the new content the streaming service is providing from April 8. The fourth season has six new episodes. The bad news for fans of the drug saga from the sleepy village of Rinseln in the middle of nowhere in North Rhine-Westphalia is: They are supposed to be the last. Netflix advertises them as the "final season."

After four years, the Netflix saga about Moritz continues

At the center is Moritz (Maximilian Mundt) again. As a student, he built a start-up and enjoys the role of a visionary business thinker à la Silicon Valley millionaire. The only problem was that his business model had a catch: He dealt drugs. The new season now tells how Moritz comes out of prison after four years. For script connoisseurs, it should be noted: Fictional series time and real-world time intersect here as well. The release of the previous season was also four years ago.

From Moritz's perspective, the world unfortunately kept turning without him. His best friend (Danilo Kamperidis) now works for Dan (Damian Hardung). And Dan, whom Moritz doesn't think much of, is living exactly the life Moritz imagined: He is the flamboyant head of a start-up that doesn't even have to sell drugs but deals with supplements, which sounds wonderfully like the new business world. It's very hard for Moritz to watch.

"The End of an Era": Between Growing Up and Start-up Criticism

Revenge, greed, jealousy, betrayal - these are very archaic motives that are now being negotiated. Perhaps that's why the series gives its characters a little more time. "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)" is still significantly faster than many other productions - but not quite as breathless as it used to be. It feels as if the smartphone Generation Z, whose zeitgeist it aims to capture, has grown up. Likewise, the series can once again be read as a fundamental criticism of the so-called start-up culture, where self-proclaimed "entrepreneurs" sometimes mask dubious business models with self-promotion. Especially this motive makes it very relevant in the year 2025. Silicon Valley capitalism has fallen into disrepute.

All of this leads - garnished with the usual absurdities in the "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)" cosmos - to a big bang. "It gets very, very criminal again and many people will die," says lead actor Maximilian Mundt to the German Press Agency. "There are kidnappings and chases." And yet it remains, of course, funny. For the 28-year-old, the final season also closes a chapter, as he says. "Well, what can I say? It's like the end of an era, a phase of life," says Mundt. For him, it feels as if he has grown up with the series, which started in 2019. "I still remember wanting to give a speech at the wrap party of this season," he recounts. "But I just had to burst into tears."

Lead Actor Mundt Already Wishes for a Comeback of "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)"

Perhaps that's also why Mundt doesn't want to completely let go of his Moritz. "I think you could definitely continue it and do another season in ten years," he says. "My wish would be for the series and the finale of this season to linger like a ghost in the Netflix offices, and in a few years, people would say: 'Oh come on, let's wake up the characters again.'" It was just so much fun.

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