Ok!
Shaping up to be a really good series.
I'm not looking to nitpick - Not really looking for historical inaccuracies.
I predict there will be two types of opinions on this show. Those who enjoy it for what it is, and those who will find every little detail wrong and nitpick. I strive to be the first, and enjoy it for the entertainment that it is.
I found it both interesting and entertaining, if you can watch without being too much of a nitpicker. It's not meant to be historically accurate. It's hyperbolic (but not unfounded) to increase viewing enjoyment.
What an amazing first episode o.o
Great show so far. Of course one would have to look away from the stigmatisation of "all nazis being creatures of evil" (I mean, there was this talk about Darth Vader, so that was a nice little detail), but once that is cleared up in one's head then killing off bad people is rather enjoyable to watch.
"Living well is the best revenge" yada yada. :grimacing: I can sense a bit of pretence there, sir, I'm sure there's more to it. It's definitely a start to get it going though, and helping with the rest.
"Continue without me, you'll probably win that, too." Haha. Loving the character dynamics so far.
I also liked how brave and smart Jonah is, but on the downside, why go seek out a brutal killer and then snivel like a kindergartenkind when he's got you trapped. Your resolution only got you that far? But I see your potential. You can make it far. Just stop snivelling please.
There are going to be a lot of issues with this series, that’s obvious.
The first one for me was how the young guy was found in the toy store by the old mentor. In a later scene he even says “you found what I couldn’t” (the location of the next target) but he obviously did find the place - just in time to save the young guy.
Nevertheless, I’m going to watch a couple of more episodes and try not to nitpick the pleasure right out of it. For me, that’s a very big order…so I’ll refrain from detailing any more complaints.
The intro was sick and easily one of the best hooks for you to be interested in this show.
The Nazis have infiltrated the 1970s America, intent on creating the 4th Reich. They have disguised themselves as common neighbors with common occupations. They intimidate congressmen to do their bidding. But a group headed by Jewish vigilantes (some of whom survived the Nazi camps, and are thus on the elderly side) has been formed to hunt them down. All the while a female black FBI agent investigates the murder of a female NASA scientist.
In this first episode a teenager joins the hunt after his grandmother dies and he discovers that the assassin is one of those Nazis she and her group were hunting. And the murdered NASA scientist turns out to have been a Nazi herself.
The obvious rote theme of the series is going to be racial discrimination and gender discrimination. To that end, the group of Hunters is as diverse and inclusive as could possibly be. There are young people and old people; there is a married couple; there is black young woman; there are Jews; there is a Catholic nun; there is even a man from Asian descent. How this self-consciously inclusive cast of characters could realistically fit into the story is yet to be seen. In the end the push for inclusivity might have over-ridden the demands of the plot.
I imagine that the audience for this series will be liberal Americans who have been formed by the current cultural and political climate of the U.S. to believe that conservatives are literally Nazis that hate both women and minorities. Still, the show's premise is quite engaging and it could make for an interesting tale.
This was not a good pilot. It was around an hour and a half long with a lot of extra shit which a pilot doesn't need. This is a pity because the initial premise and plot points that were actually relevant seemed really interesting. The writing is also surprisingly funny, everything Offerman says is great.
Seems like the rest of the episodes are shorter at least so this might just be a problem with the pilot not the series as a whole.
Cheeks: Why the hell does Darth Vader got to be black?
Bootyhole: He's not black, Cheeks. He's a dark lord.
Cheeks: Oh, a dark lord?
Bootyhole: Yeah.
Cheeks: Dude's got a black suit, dude's got a black mask, and last time I checked, James Earl Jones is sure as shit a brother. We're always the motherfucking villain, man. And you know what? I see it.
Jonah: You think Vader's the villain, though?
Cheeks: Yeah.
Bootyhole: Are you serious, Jonah?
Cheeks: Every time Vader came on the screen, Bootyhole pissed his husky boy pants.
Bootyhole: Oh, fuck you, okay? Darth Vader killed tons of people.
Jonah: Look, Vader did some bad shit. I'm not saying that, not denying that. Darth Vader wasn't born Darth Vader. For all we know, he was born Chad Rubenstein - asthmatic, premature ejaculating, good-hearted loser.
Cheeks: Chad Rubenstein?
Bootyhole: And he can talk about losers.
Jonah: And like every kid in the galactic empire, he was conditioned to believe that some evil jedi rebels from some desert shithole were gonna come bomb his parents, behead his friends, kidnap all the hot galactic chicks for lightsaber orgies. Vader doesn't get up every day looking to destroy the galaxy. No, no. He gets up every morning believing he needs to save it.
Bootyhole: Yeah, but he's still a murderer, dude.
Cheeks: Exactly.
Jonah: So is Batman, Booty. So is fucking Batman. He hanged a mental patient from the Batplane. He crushed a guy's guts out with a car compactor. Superman's slaughtered cities. Green Lantern took out a planet. Orion the Space Slayer fucking leveled a goddamn solar system. The only difference between a hero and a villain is who sells more costumes on Halloween.
Morris, if you're itching for some grand battle between good and evil, you ain't gonna find it here. We're not soldiers, we're not saints. We're janitors is all.
Jonah: What are you cocks spazzing about?
Bootyhole: Oh, well, we call "Jane" if we think the chick's squish mittens are trimmed and then "Tarzan" if it looks like her, uh, Hairy Manilow's an all-out pube jungle.
Jonah: You guys are idiots.
Offerman: You should read the Torah more. It is the original comic book.
Offerman: How are you?
Jonah: I'm fine.
Offerman: Your face still looks like shit.
Jonah: At least mine will heal.
Jonah: You didn't tell me you were Bruce Wayne rich.
Offerman: The Talmud is wrong. Living well is not the best revenge. You know what the best revenge is? Revenge.
I enjoyed it very much. I think Al Pacino is awesome actor.I thought it kind of dragged in the middle but it ended up grabbing me towards the end.
Wrong runtime, this app always does that when the pilots longer
He had me untill he said “the only difference between a hero and a villain is who sells more costumes on Halloween” I would like rant about how that’s dumb lol but it’s pretty obvious
I guess when you're on a streaming service you don't necessarily need to have the best pilot because this one felt like it was on automatic. It wasn't bad or anything it just didn't really do much more than set a style and setting. I'm not even sure it really did much to set a tone. It's watchable but nothing of which I'm begging to see a second episode.
This must be based on a graphic novel or comic. See what I know.
Review by Marc FriedolinVIP 6BlockedParentSpoilers2020-02-21T07:45:41Z
The fight scene in the toyshop is the worst fight I've seen since my childhood.
He literally turned and held the knife to his own throat for about a second allowing the other character to grab his hand. Additionally the Nazis are portraied like pure monsters without any real world applicable intelligence.
Instead of trying to scheme their way out of a jam, they just kill everyone near them.
Thats just plain stupid - yes, real world Nazis did stuff like that, but they already had a tremendous amount of power and support by then.
Here it is the 70ies - thats when american companies refused to work with german companies because the CEOs had friends who died in the war.
The NASA Scientist in the gas chamber is a nice touch - although stupid, she could have easily survived breathing through the crack or using her not insignificant body-weight to break the glass.
I broke glass like that by accident when I was sick and fainted back when I was 14 and I was a lightweight.
She might still have died, but her efforts lack realism.
So far it looks like the show can't decide if it wants to be taken serious or not and hangs somewhere in the middle making it just look idiotic.
Sadly I'm a sucker for Nazis getting killed on TV, so I'll probably continue to watch anyway.