Murder Mindfully is a German dark comedy show on Netflix that combines crime and mindfulness in a unique way. In the show—defense lawyer Bjorn Diemel (Tom Schilling) tries to find a better work-life balance by incorporating mindfulness techniques into his daily life. He goes in a strange direction when he mixes his newfound peace of mind with the violent world of his mafia clients. Bjorn’s character deals with crime, family duties,and his own dark goals by combining murder and mindfulness in a strange but interesting way.
At the start of the show, Bjorn’s family life is in trouble because of his demanding job and his relationship with — Dragan (Sascha Alexander Gersak), the violent mob boss who hires him. Bjorn takes a mindfulness course to try to make his relationships and daily life more peaceful because he is — unhappy with his current situation. But things get creepy when he uses mindfulness principles to plan his actions which eventually lead to a string of murders. This is a summary of what happened from Episode 1 to Episode 7, which led up to the finale.
Murder Mindfully Season 1 Summary
Bjorn starts his journey with a class in mindfulness, which he takes to calm down his crazy life. He tries hard not to, but his mafia boss Dragan forces him to go along with what he wants and hide his crimes. After a fight—Bjorn kills Dragan to protect his family and his own life. In episode 2, Bjorn goes to great lengths to hide Dragan’s body. He even cuts it up and throws the pieces away in a wood chipper. He keeps a few of Dragan’s fingers as a weapon and then avoids getting caught by the police, including Nicole Egman (Britta Hammelstein), his friend and fellow officer.
In episode 3, As Bjorn goes back to his normal life, the things that happened to him keep coming back to haunt him. He tricks his law firm into giving him a severance package, and then he uses Dragan’s finger to keep his former coworkers from finding out. At the same time, a raven flies off with Dragan’s finger, which causes problems that no one saw coming. To fix problems at his daughter’s daycare, Bjorn threatens the owner of the daycare with bad news and forces them to take his daughter. The raven gives Dragan the finger at a restaurant, which makes the police look into it again.
Boris, a rival mob boss, kidnaps Bjorn and his friend Sascha, but Bjorn is able to talk his way out of it. Soon after, he plans the bombing of his secretary’s apartment to clear up any more doubts and make his criminal friends trust him more. Bjorn keeps up his risky behavior by getting together Dragan’s old allies to make his power stronger. Toni (Marc Hosemann), one of Dragan’s men, questions Bjorn’s leadership, but Bjorn gets away with it by saying that Dragan “trusts” him. In episode 7, Toni starts to doubt Bjorn and ties him to a chair to get him to tell her something. With Sascha’s help, Bjorn gets away and moves forward with his plan to trick Officer Möller, who is connected to the criminal underworld. Bjorn sets up a meeting with Nicole to get Nicole to take the blame for killing Dragan off of Möller.
Murder Mindfully Episode 8 Recap:
In the last episode called “Death” Bjorn realizes that he has made a lot of dangerous enemies, including Boris, who is after him for killing Dragan. In order to really leave his life of crime behind, he knows he has to get rid of all threats.
To begin, Nicole’s search has led her closer to the truth about what happened to Dragan. She finds some evidence that links Bjorn to Dragan’s possible murder like Dragan’s severed finger that was found at a restaurant. Bjorn, on the other hand, meets Nicole and tries to calm her down. He tries to trick her by offering her a spot at a daycare for her child, which makes her seem less objective about the case. Nicole isn’t sure about letting Bjorn walk, but she agrees for now.
At the same time, Bjorn sets up a deadly fight between Boris and Toni—who are his two biggest enemies. Bjorn tells Sascha to take Toni hostage and bring him to a remote area where Boris is waiting. When Bjorn gets there, he plays a video of Malte’s confession, which shows that Toni lied. Boris is sure that Toni is not loyal, so he tells his men to kill him.
A drone flies over just as Boris thinks he has eliminated a threat. Bjorn persuades Boris that the police own the drone and that they have video of Boris helping to kill Toni. Boris quickly hides in the trunk of Bjorn’s car because he is afraid of being caught. Bjorn drives to a remote area where he had previously thrown away Dragan’s body with Boris in the trunk. It seems likely that Bjorn kills Boris in the same cruel way, but the scene doesn’t make this clear.
Bjorn has a strange sense of peace when he gets back to his new office. He has basically taken away all threats, keeping his power while pretending to be a real lawyer in public. Nicole is still looking into it because she thinks Bjorn has something to do with it. At the very end, she finds a scary toy in Bjorn’s apartment that keeps saying, “I chopped up my client, and I’ve never felt more free.” This accusatory phrase makes Nicole think that Bjorn is guilty, but it doesn’t give her any solid proof.
Murder Mindfully Episode 8: Ending Explained!
In the last episode of “Murder Mindfully,” Bjorn is at the top of his game, having taken out all the threats to his life. He stays calm under pressure by using what he knows about mindfulness to control people and events to his benefit. The ending — on the other hand, makes it seem like he might not be completely safe. Nicole’s suspicions and the fact that she found the toy with the recorded message make it seem like Bjorn’s carefully constructed front could fall apart if Nicole keeps looking for him.
Based on what he does in the series—Bjorn is a morally complicated character. He says that he is doing bad things to protect his family and keep their life peaceful but he ends up getting caught in a web of lies and murder. Mindfulness practices that helped him feel better at first turn into tools for criminal manipulation—making it hard to tell the difference between peaceful and violent actions.
Bjorn seems to have reached his goal of balancing work and personal life but it came at a high moral cost. He is now in-charge of a crime empire — while acting like a trustworthy lawyer. Still, the last few seconds give us a hint that this precarious balance might not last. There is an open-ended question about the nature of mindfulness and morality at the end of “Murder Mindfully.” This question makes viewers think about whether real inner peace can exist in a life full of lies and violence.
The ending is a darkly ironic end to Bjorn’s journey. His lessons in mindfulness have helped him stay away from guilt and regret in a world full of crime. But as he sits there alone, happy but alone, it’s not clear if he has really found the happiness he was looking for or if he has just switched one source of chaos for another.
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