Hunters: continuation and end of a mind-blowing Nazi hunt

A high-flying production,

returns for a second and final season that fans will remember, flaws notwithstanding, as one of the most daring creations of the decade.

The series was born from the fertile brain of David Weil (

but also the series on containment

with Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman, in particular), directed by Jordan Peele (

) and embodied by the immense Al Pacino , for the first time at the head of a series.

And takes the New York of the 1970s as a setting, draws from the comic book, the tarantinesque, the spy novel, the swashbuckling film, to deliver a mind-blowing uchronic-dystopico-fantasy story.

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Fourth Reich

That of the emergence, in the shadow of the tall towers of Manhattan, of a Fourth Reich made up of Nazis on the run that Meyer Offerman (Pacino) and his group of hunters must neutralize at all costs.

After the rout, at the end of the first season, which we will be careful not to divulge, for those who have not seen it, the group reforms and leaves, in 1979, in the footsteps of Adolf Hitler... Yes , in this fiction, the monster is still alive and hiding in South America with his wife, Eva Braun, aptly nicknamed the “Colonel”.

The eight new episodes, by the yardstick of those of the first season, are mastered, baroque, violent, edifying.

Read alsoThe last secrets of Adolf Hitler

Everyone knows that a significant number of Nazis managed to flee to South America at the end of the Second World War.

Everyone also knows, in part thanks to declassified archives, that some of them were “drafted” by the United States against sharing their knowledge, regardless of their war crimes.

David Weil, a Harvard political science graduate, knows what he's talking about.

And the hypothesis of an active survival of Nazism somewhere in the world is directly or indirectly mentioned in many fictions, from

to

via the horror series

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“'Hunters' was born from the story that my grandmother, a survivor, told us of her detention in a concentration camp.

I was 5 or 6 years old.

It was not a question for her of minimizing the horror, but of telling it from a different angle, so as not to traumatize us.

First, she recalled that even if Hitler had been defeated and the Nazis defeated, anti-Semitism, brutality, bigotry and fascism would continue to exist.

Then, it shrouded all of this in such a way that my little boy's mind very quickly saw all kinds of superheroes in it

, ”said the creator in 2020, at the launch of season 1. Everything is therefore to be taken between first, second, even third degree.

Despite this.

Despite its cathartic effect - the hunt for Hitler, which we imagine can only be fruitful... - the series, by its very premise, has aroused lively controversy.

For example, it has been widely criticized for distorting reality.

In fact, season 2 will be the last.

It comes with

, a six-part podcast focusing on the real heroes of the Holocaust.