Genre: Conspiracy thriller, Crime drama, Period#
Created by David Weil
Starring: Logan Lerman, Al Pacino, Jerrika Hinton, Lena Olin, Saul Rubinek, Carol Kane, Josh Radnor, Greg Austin, Tiffany Boone, Louis Ozawa, Kate Mulvany & Dylan Baker.
Theme Song Composer: Trevor Gureckis
Composer: Cristobal Tapia de Veer
Executive producers: Tom Lesinski, David Ellender, Jenna Santoianni, Win Rosenfeld, Nelson McCormick, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, David Weil, Nikki Toscano, Jordan Peele, David J. Rosen
Producers: Jerry Kupfer, Kris Baucom, Glenn Kessler, Mark Bianculli
Cinematography: William Rexer, Tim Norman, Frederick Elmes
Editors: Matt Barber, Amy E. Duddleston, John Petaja, Andrew Groves
Production companies: Monkeypaw Productions, Sonar Entertainment, Big Indie, Black Mass Productions, Governor’s Court, Amazon Studios
Distributor: Amazon Studios
Plot: After an accident derails their exploits in Europe, The Hunters must band back together to hunt down history’s most infamous Nazi—Adolf Hitler—who’s hiding in South America. Meanwhile, a look to the past reveals Meyer Offerman (Al Pacino) encountering a dangerous threat that could unravel his secret and expose his true identity, with explosive reverberations for our Hunters.
Season 2 of Hunters was fine.
Pros: Jonah’s new hairstyle does look familiar to Keanu Reeves and he’s more of a confident character this time around. This season works being a race against time narrative catching Adolf Hitler. The tone was a lot serious this time around where it became the story. Each present of the nazi’s are chilling as ever & this being the final season did feel a bitter sweet ending to the show overall.
Cons: My wait for this season was four years too late. It will get difficult sometimes watching this season without any memory of what happened in season one. I became frustrated with the run time of every episode being 50 minutes long and Al Pacino’s Meyer Offerman I didn’t feel he needed to be there.
Casts & Characters:
Main:
- Logan Lerman as Jonah Heidelbaum, a young mathematics genius who takes his grandmother’s place among the Hunters. Lerman joined the project due to the involvements of Jordan Peele, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, David Weil, and Nikki Toscano, and the series’ moral dilemma of being bad to fight evil.
- Al Pacino as Meyer Offerman, a Polish-Jewish philanthropist and Holocaust survivor who recruits and leads the Hunters. It is Pacino’s first-ever TV series lead role; said the long-time actor, “I missed out on some great television offers I had in the past because the whole thing was: ‘You don’t do television.’ That’s what the advisors would say early on. I’m talking 30 years ago.
- Lena Olin as Eva Braun-Hitler / The Colonel, leader of the Fourth Reich and Hitler’s wife.
- Jerrika Hinton as Millie Morris, an FBI agent who stumbles onto the Fourth Reich and the Hunters during a murder investigation. Hinton focused the most on the character’s overwhelming faith on powerful institutions meant to protect citizens, such as the FBI. In studying the role as well as the nature of the FBI in the 1970s, she had conversations with a black woman who was an FBI agent in the 1970s like Millie, named Jerri Williams, which, in Hinton’s words, were “monumentally helpful.”
- Carol Kane as Mindy Markowitz, Murray’s wife and the Hunters’ signals expert; a German-Jewish Holocaust survivor.
- Josh Radnor as Lonny Flash, an actor and master of disguises for the Hunters.
- Greg Austin as Travis Leich, an American Neo-Nazi acolyte drawn into the Fourth Reich. Austin chose the role after doing many prior ones very close to his empathetic real-life personality, and wanting to challenge himself playing the opposite of that; he studied psychopathic characters in various television series, as well as the real-life Ted Bundy, for his role.
- Tiffany Boone as Roxy Jones, a member of the Hunters who specializes in counterfeiting and forgery.
- Louis Ozawa as Joe Mizushima, a Vietnam War veteran and the Hunters’ combat expert. He turns against the Hunters in Season 2 after being kidnapped by The Colonel.
- Kate Mulvany as Sister Harriet, a former MI6 operative who now works with the Hunters; a former German-Jewish child refugee.
- Dylan Baker as Biff Simpson, an Undersecretary of State in the Carter administration and secretly an undercover Nazi agent.
- Jennifer Jason Leigh (season 2) as Chava Apfelbaum, a Jewish Nazi hunter, and Ruth’s sister.
- Udo Kier (season 2; stand-in guest season 1) as Adolf Hitler, the former Führer of the Third Reich, who faked his death, and mastermind of the Fourth Reich.
Recurring:
- Christian Oliver as Wilhelm Zuchs, “The Wolf,” a Nazi doctor at Auschwitz who tormented both Meyer and Jonah’s grandmother Ruth
- Victor Williams as Detective Kennedy Groton
- Jonno Davies as Tobias, the Colonel’s body man
- James LeGros as Hank Grimsby, former OSS operative and now Millie’s boss at the FBI
- Ebony Obsidian as Carol Lockhart
- Caleb Emery as Arthur “Bootyhole” McGuigan
- Henry Hunter Hall as Sherman “Cheeks” Johnson
- Jeannie Berlin as Ruth Heidelbaum, Jonah’s grandmother and a survivor of Auschwitz
- Julissa Bermudez as Maria, Millie’s girlfriend and a nurse
- Becky Ann Baker as Commerce Secretary Juanita M. Kreps
- Celia Weston as Dottie
- Joshua Satine as Aaron Markowitz
Guests:
- Josh Mostel as Rabbi Steckler
- Barbara Sukowa as Tilda Sauer
- Judd Hirsch as Simon Wiesenthal
- Keir Dullea as Klaus Rhinehart
- William Sadler as Friedrich Mann
- John Noble as Fredric Hauser
- Victor Slezak as Wernher Von Braun
- Jérôme Charvet as Armand
- Veronika Nowag-Jones as Gretel Fischer, a NASA scientist killed in the first episode and investigated by Millie Morris
- Max MacKenzie as Markus Roth
I recommend watching both seasons of this show on Prime Video.
Rating: 7 out of 10 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident TV reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe