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Bruno in season 2

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Oskar in season 2

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Emil in season 2

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Leo in season 2

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Max in season 2

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One other thing I wanted to post just so that it's documented somewhere on the Internet is that various episodes have erroneous official episode descriptions (mostly on the Joyn website). 

1x03

Max geht mit einem cholerischen Investor im Fitnessstudio trainieren, um ihn von einer Investition in sein Start-Up zu überzeugen. Bruno und Emil beteiligen sich an einer Protestaktion von Klimaaktivisten und ketten sich an Bäume – nur um Mädchen kennenzulernen. Gleichzeitig muss sich Oskar um den seltsamen Nachbarsjungen kümmern und findet Interesse an dessen Freundin. Leos Freund zwingt ihn, sich einem Check-up beim Arzt zu unterziehen: mit tragischer Diagnose. 

The Leo/Florian subplot doesn't happen and Leo doesn't appear until the birthday party towards the episodes end (and Florian not at all). 

1x06

Die Freundes-Gruppe hat Krätze und befindet sich deshalb in häuslicher Quarantäne. Da die Wohnung schnell zu klein für die fünf Freunde wird, beschließen sie spontan, nach Sylt zu fahren, um dort die Quarantäne zu beenden. Oskar, Max und Leo flüchten nachts vom Zeltplatz, und brechen die Quarantäne für eine Hausparty von Comedian Chris Montana. Auch Bruno und Emil halten es in ihren Zelten nicht aus und befreunden sich mit einer Gruppe jugendlicher Hospizkinder.

Leo isn't even part of the trip. Since Max's car only has four seats, one of them has to stay behind, and it's Leo who loses the "floor is lava" game. And Chris Tall, like many others on the show, plays a fictionalized version of himself, not a character named Montana (??)

2x03

Aus Angst, in der Versenkung zu verschwinden, nehmen Oskar und Bruno notgedrungen einen No-Budget-Job bei einem HfbK-Abschlussfilm an. Doch ihre Star-Allüren stoßen schnell an Grenzen: kein Fahrer, keine Assistent:innen, kein Luxus – stattdessen müssen sie der Regisseurin Sophia erst einmal erklären, dass sie angeblich erfolgreiche Schauspieler sind, auch wenn der Markt gerade „etwas schwierig“ sei. Währenddessen verkaufen Leo und Emil aus Geldnot ihre Sachen auf dem Flohmarkt.

Same as above: Paulita Pappel plays a fictionalized version of herself, not a character named Sophia.

It's possible that these descriptions were based on early drafts of the scripts. In the case of 1x03 I believe the subplot was actually filmed since Lukas von Horbatschewsky (Florian) is listed in the credits. Maybe it was cut for time? The Max and Emil/Bruno plots in the episode intertwine and the Oskar plot continues into the ending where everyone is present, while Leo's plot (as usual for the season) would’ve been completely separate, so it was the obvious choice to cut. (Or maybe it just wasn't good.) 

In the case of Paulita/Sophia maybe the role wasn't written with her in mind. Or it was but she rather wanted to play herself? The role doesn't really make any specific reference to her real-life self.

1x06 is the oddest case. Or the most likely one to just be a mistake by some intern tasked with writing descriptions and not paying attention, but how go you go from "Tall" to "Montana"? The episode doesn't paint him in a good light, so maybe they wrote the role as a fictional character, but Tall decided that he didn't mind appearing as "himself". As for Leo... obviously he wasn't cut from the episode after filming. But there are some clues that maybe he wasn't planned to be excluded from the trip beforehand: 

Tom, the assistant director, posted several videos from the shoot of the season. Leo is nowhere to be found in this footage from filming at the camping site (when he could/should have been in the directors' chair that day). They filmed these scenes on day 4 of 25, so very early in the shoot. Since a season is filmed in a single block and the shooting schedule is based around what location(s) they have booked for that day they probably can't just delay everything when someone gets sick. (He was present the next day, so this is just a wild guess.) They shot the apartment scenes much later and might have reconceived them to adjust to Leo's absence from the rest of the ep.

Maybe it’s me but the way Leo is written out of the ep is rather odd. They can't just rent a car with five seats? One scene earlier Max found out the others bought fifty of his sweaters just to make him feel better. How much would that cost? Now, logic isn’t the show's strongest suit so maybe they just didn't think that through. But it does kinda give thrown together last-minute. 

Lastly, the scene where they load up the car is shot in the same grainy/handheld style as several scene transitions and they obscure a passerby's face. Because it was a last-minute addition that they did without a permit to film on the street? 

This is just something I've been thinking about since Leo is my favorite character and it sucks a little how often he is sidelined in comparison to the other four (it continues in season 2 to an extent, where he does have more screentime in general and finally some decent interaction with the others, but then he’s not at all in 2x06). Although the way they go about it writing him out in 1x06 is still funny just in how abrupt and casually mean-spirited it is. 

Anyway, that's my lengthy and possibly entirely wrong speculation about something that's totally irrelevant and only I have ever thought about. (And I made those gifs a while ago and wanted to use them.) I'll end with a pic of younger Leo where he has amazing hair he should go back to.

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One random observation I wanted to mention just so that exists somewhere on the Internet is that in season 2, the apartment of Leo/Bruno/Max/later Emil has an entirely different exterior.

Season 1:

Season 2:

And the funny thing is that in season 2, it's actually the real exterior of the house the apartment is in. In season 1, it wasn't, although the real Max and Leo actually lived in the apartment until (I think) some time after the filming of season 1. See this video (where Max also asks where they're filming today, and Oskar answers "Schäferstraße", which is the street where the exterior scenes were filmed in season 1)

(Then there's Oskar's apartment, which is completely different inside and out in season 2. A wizard did it.)

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Huh, I watched some of season 1 again and... it has a new soundtrack. In several scenes that used to have an original underscore, a pre-existing song now plays. There's even an official playlist. I suspect they wanted to bring things more in line with season 2, which has a very extensive song score and not that much original music by the show's composer.

The new version also brought back the full closing credits, which is how the episodes were originally presented in 2023. A few months later they were replaced with a version that had just a single ending card but also added an intro. And now we're back to the original version in that regard, but with a different soundtrack. Odd! To save it for posterity, here's the intro:

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Emil Belton, Bruno Alexander, Oskar Belton, Max Mathis and Leonard Fuchs in Intimate S2E8 (2025)

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2x04 - every frame a Renaissance painting

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max is on a nostalgia kick rn

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oh emil

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unfortunately, it's becoming a genuine ear worm for me

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the fact that they ended up as the season's true OTP...

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