“Ever since I embraced mindfulness, my life is being threatened with alarming frequency,” says Björn Diemel.

Björn works for an unappreciative law firm and his clients are equally ungrateful mafia bosses. As his family life goes down the drain, he can either wave it goodbye or follow his disappointed wife’s advice and attend a class in mindfulness.

And mindfulness it is – dissected in the black humour gem Murder Mindfully from Germany one deep breath at a time.

While the idea was for Björn to find a better work-life balance, throwing an intelligent albeit stressed mafia lawyer into the world of calm sends him off in a totally different direction.

Faced with a crux and breathwork in his pocket, Björn weighs his options and very calmly decides to bump off his murderer of a client so that he can spend some quality time with his four-year-old daughter at that very same client’s lake house.

Mindfulness coaching, however, did not explain how to dispose of the body.

This, Björn finds, is a job best delegated.

And so Björn embarks on a journey of self-discovery, solving problems he would not have had if he had not embraced mindfulness – probably because he would be dead, to be fair – and juggling disgruntled mafia gangs who want a word with the mob boss.

While all this is happening, Björn is constantly dodging his ex-girlfriend police homicide detective, who with severed mafia-ringed finger in hand is looking for the rest of Dragan’s body.

Bribery, Björn discovers, works a treat. So do cleverly delivered attorney-style threats. And ice cream.

Björn, using his newly minted coping mechanisms and acting without a thought of what comes next – in the moment, no less – is always one step ahead until… no, that would spoil it for you.

Tom Schilling is excellent as Björn Diemel, as are Emily Cox as his wife, Peter Jordan as the mindfulness coach, Sascha Alexander Geršak as Dragan, Murathan Muslu and Marc Hosemann as mobsters and Britta Hammelstein as the police officer.

A well-dubbed series, eight short episodes, perfect for curling up on the sofa and binge-watching.