Hunters: Chasing 
Nazis on Amazon

A

l Pacino leads a team 
of covert anti-Nazi 
vigilantes in Amazon 
Prime’
s new show Hunters. 
The entire first season pre-
mieres on the service Feb. 21. 
Set in 1977 New York, the 
action-drama is based on 
some real-life efforts to bring 
fugitive Third Reich offi-
cers to justice in the United 
States. Pacino’
s shadowy 
millionaire Meyer Offerman, 
a Holocaust survivor, leads a 
team of loose cannons across 
age, race and creed. 
They track down Nazis 
who’
ve assimilated, barely 
concealed, into American 
society and, in fact, often 
brandish their swastikas in 
public while they attempt 
to infiltrate the U.S. gov-
ernment. Less Inglourious 
Basterds than A-Team, these 
jaunty heroes are equal parts 
violent and flip. 
The show’
s center 
isn’
t Meyer, but Jonah 
Heidelbaum (Logan 
Lerman), a wide-eyed, nice 
Jewish boy drawn into the 
hunters’
 orbit. He’
s a super-
hero fan looking for idols 
in a less abundant time for 

caped crusaders than our 
present, and the show reflects 
his simple logic. 
Depicting an old-fash-
ioned battle of good vs. evil, 
Hunters moves at a fast clip 
(the first five episodes were 
made available for review), 
with a fun palette of primary 
colors. But Jonah’
s ambiva-
lent, angst-riddled embrace 
of his mission often feels 
contrived, as does his lashing 
out at his hunter peers, who 
are little better developed 
than the two-dimensional 
Nazi foes.
While Jonah’
s young-adult 
anxiety gets ample oxygen, 
the rest of the cast is smoth-
ered by their shared vocal 
tones, needless accents and 
pun-riddled dialogue. Their 
showdowns with the Nazis 
they root out behind false 
walls (the same techniques 
Nazis once used to target 
Jews) aren’
t as meaningful as 
they could be. 
Great villains have char-
acter, but Hunters’
 surviving 
fascists are defined solely 
by sieg heils and vile slurs, 
making the show’
s retributive 
bloodshed ring hollow. 

GEORGE ELKIND CONTRIBUTING WRITER

 FEBRUARY 20 • 2020 | 43

TV Review
Al Pacino 
plays a 
Holocaust 
survivor 
tracking 
down fugitive 
Nazis in 1977 
New York in 
Amazon’
s 
Hunters.

CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS / AMAZON STUDIOS

“IT’
S SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL!”
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