AMAZON| Hunters
Al Pacino fights Nazis, both old and new
DRAMAAt its improbable, lurid best, Hunters is
a combination of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglou-
rious Basterds and Mission: Impossible. It’s
violent, joltingly exciting entertainment. Al
Pacino heads the Hunters, a team dedicated
to avenging Nazi crimes against the Jews and,
it seems, preventing the rise of a Fourth Reich
in 1970s America. This small league of crusad-
ers, which for some reason includes a blonde
British nun, means business: They lock one
unrepentant Nazi in his music studio and
blare Little Richard’s “Long Tall Sally” at such
volume that his ears leak blood. Yet the show,
which creator David Weil says was inspired by
his grandmother’s recollections of the Holo-
Pacino and Lerman
try to stop the Nazi
menace—in the
1970s. (Interview
with costar Carol
Kane on page 61.)
caust, also flashes back—at times jarringly—to a
slow, serious story set in the death camps. We’re
in a strange moment culturally: The Holocaust
remains a nightmare historical moment, and
anti-Semitism has seen a resurgence. Yet the
enormous sponge of pop culture can’t resist
trying to absorb even this stain—consider
Jojo Rabbit, the Oscar-winning comedy-fantasy
about a little Nazi whose imaginary pal is Hitler.
Hunters is more successful, if only because it’s
more up-front about acknowledging the gap
between fantasy and reality. And Logan Lerman,
as the newest, youngest recruit to the Hunters, is
terrific in the earnestness of his confusion and
anger. (Amazon, launches Feb. 21)
Jordan Peele
The Get Out
director executive-
produces the series.
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Edited By
Tom Gliatto
March 2, 2020 35
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