Warning: Spoilers ahead for Maxton Hall—The World Between Us

When director Martin Schreier was making the first season of Maxton Hall—The World Between Us , he never imagined it would become Prime Video’s most-watched international original series ever. The teen romance about ambitious scholarship student Ruby Bell (Harriet Herbig-Matten) and arrogant rich kid James Beaufort (Damian Hardung) may be set at an elite British secondary school, but it is adapted from a German-language book trilogy by author Mona Kasten starring German actors and made by a German crew.

“We made it only with Germany in mind,” Schreier says, joking that—otherwise—maybe they would have shot it in English. But after they finished shooting the first season, which premiered in 2024, Schreier says he was pleasan

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