I'm 66. I grew up with The War.
This series is a 21C take on Berlin 1945. And it looks and feels 21C.
The language is 21C. The clothing is a poor excuse for 1945 imitation. Everything about the way the people are shouts 'we're 21C trying to pretend Berlin 1945'. Mission impossible.
One scene (spoiler alert): when the Yank tries to stop 2 Soviet soldiers shooting German civilians, it looks like a scene out of a 21C crime thriller. In reality, they would have shot him and left him for dead. They both had Russian submachine guns. No one would have noticed him missing.
Then he tries to create a ;'crime scene'... Berlin is in abs ruins. There aren't any streets left or buildings, and he's trying to create a crime scene?
It doesn't make sense, doesn't ring true and really isn;t worth watching for 'historically realistic content'.
But no one has picked any of this up in any other reviews I;'ve read. Maybe GenZ/Millennials have forgotten already that nightmare, if they ever knew. No, of course they didn;t. So why make a stupid story like this? It can't be done realistically, so why do it all?
I'm being generous with 3 out of 5. Maybe I just appreciate the German angle in it. Otherwise, it's not worth anyone's time of day, unless its a rainy afternoon with nothing better to do...
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