Hunters (2020-2023)

Unbalanced, crazy mix of drama, violence and comedy, quite entertaining but rather thick. The inventive casting and the bizarre plot lines make up for a lot, but the characters are just a bit too cartoonish to be credible. The sporadic Auschwitz flashbacks are also quite irreverent and tasteless. All in all, it feels a bit like a cross between Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and the earlier Amazon series The Boys, although the level of those two is nowhere reached.

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Watched the first three episodes yesterday. Most of the characters are portrayed as dramatic caricatures to disguise that they are poorly developed and Al Pacino walks in between a bit as foreigner of reason. The tracking work is interesting in itself, but all those caricatures around it were not necessary for me. With a black lesbian who works for the FBI and the Asian 'hunter', this series also tries to unnecessarily be too politically correct, while trying to appeal to the youth with unnecessary swearing. For the viewer who has often seen series or films set in the 1970s, this swearing feels a bit unrealistic.

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Well... This started out okay, but got worse and worse as the end neared.
In fact, the annoyance started the moment I saw Adolf Hitler, fit as a fiddle, shooting clay pigeons at the age of 90.
Too crazy for words, so weakly portrayed.
More and more flaws crept in, none of which I'm going to mention. But all in all it was quite an anticlimax after such an incredibly strong season 1.

Pity.

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