History YMMV / Tatort

* RetroactiveRecognition: Pretty regular since ''Tatort'' serves as a career stepping stone for many aspiring German actors -- if they're popular today, there's a pretty good chance that one of their early roles was in a ''Tatort'' episode and gained them attention. On this wiki alone, it includes the likes of Creator/JurgenProchnow, Creator/SebastianKoch, Creator/FlorianLukas, Creator/AlexandraMariaLara, Creator/KatharinaSchuttler, Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer, Creator/VolkerBruch, Creator/SibelKekilli, Creator/LivLisaFries, Creator/LeonieBenesch and [[MediaNotes/TatortActors many others]].

** Creator/ClausTheoGartner had two roles in ''Tatort'' in The70s before he became the lead of [[DuelingWorks rival]] DetectiveDrama ''Series/ACaseForTwo''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Pretty regular since ''Tatort'' serves as a career stepping stone for many aspiring German actors -- if they're popular today, there's a pretty good chance that one of their early roles was in a ''Tatort'' episode and gained them attention. On this wiki alone, it includes the likes of Creator/JurgenProchnow, Creator/SebastianKoch, Creator/FlorianLukas, Creator/AlexandraMariaLara, Creator/KatharinaSchuttler, Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer, Creator/VolkerBruch, Creator/SibelKekilli, Creator/LivLisaFries, Creator/LeonieBenesch and many others.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Pretty regular since ''Tatort'' serves as a career stepping stone for many aspiring German actors -- if they're popular today, there's a pretty good chance that one of their early roles was in a ''Tatort'' episode and gained them attention. On this wiki alone, it includes the likes of Creator/JurgenProchnow, Creator/SebastianKoch, Creator/FlorianLukas, Creator/AlexandraMariaLara, Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer, Creator/VolkerBruch, Creator/SibelKekilli, Creator/LivLisaFries, Creator/LeonieBenesch and many others.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Arguably the earliest episodes (being as they predate the German crime-fiction craze ''Tatort'' helped start) are a bit tame and boring compared to the humor/shock value/whatever the newer episodes rely on to draw ratings.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Pretty regular since ''Tatort'' serves as a career stepping stone for many aspiring German actors -- if they're popular today, there's a pretty good chance that one of their early roles was in a ''Tatort'' episode and gained them attention. On this wiki alone, it includes the likes of Creator/JurgenProchnow, Creator/SebastianKoch, Creator/AlexandraMariaLara, Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer, Creator/VolkerBruch, Creator/SibelKekilli, Creator/LivLisaFries, and many others.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The series is SeriousBusiness in Germany and discussing/bashing the newest episode is a popular sport almost on par with football. So prepare for a lot of this whenever a Tatort director tries something daring. UpToEleven, naturally, since the appearance of social media - their participators and the critics in the feature pages seem to be of opposite opinion all the time, to state it neutrally.

* FollowTheLeader: ''Tatort'' helped launch a German crime-fiction craze with - both in literature and TV - a particular emphasis on setting the stories in very definite real locations including local color. There is also the tendency (both within ''Tatort'' itself and other crime fiction series) to go for the oddball humor of the Münster ''Tatort'' as it is a ratings darling.