# Chabos (2025)

> A 36-year-old man, uninvited from his class reunion, returns to his hometown and to the bleached-tip skateboarding teenage years he would rather forget.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/194610

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 38 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: comedy, drama
- Created by: Arkadij Khaet, Mickey Paatzsch
- Network: ZDFneo
- Cast: Johannes Kienast, Nico Marischka, Jonathan Kriener, Loran Alhasan, Arsseni Bultmann, Salimou Thiam, Maximilian Raffelt, Mathilda Smidt
- TMDB rating: 8.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32580215/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: wistful, cringe, nostalgic, self-mocking, melancholic

## Synopsis

Chabos is a German dramedy miniseries created by Arkadij Khaet and Mickey Paatzsch, broadcast on ZDFneo in 2025 across a single season of eight episodes of roughly 38 minutes each. Johannes Kienast plays Peppi, a thirty-six-year-old who discovers he was not invited to his class reunion and begins to doubt his own self-image. His search for answers pulls him back to his old hometown and into memories of his sixteen-year-old self, played by Nico Marischka, who skateboards with bleached tips through the monsoon-like years of the 2000s. Supporting turns from Jonathan Kriener as Young PD, Loran Alhasan as Young Alba and Arsseni Bultmann as Young Gollum fill out the teenage circle. The engine of the show is simple and sharp: an adult trying to reconstruct who he was, while the flip phones, lan parties and Top of the Pops nostalgia of that era gradually reveal teenage conduct he would rather not face. Each episode alternates between present-day embarrassment and youthful recollection, giving the series a wistful, self-mocking register. Its tone mixes nostalgic warmth with cringe comedy and quiet shame, somewhat in the spirit of The Wonder Years and Fleabag, and it will appeal to viewers who enjoy German television that turns memory into comedy and unease.

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