User Reviews

Forget about the negative review, this is evolving into a good story, even though an American view, but the plot is getting better. Stay with this, it is not half bad.

First off, I'm wondering how does the slovenly lead character Max maintain his inane, 21st Century, two-day stubble every day? He'd need to shave once in a while or he'd grow a full beard, though the actor doesn't appear to have sufficient testosterone for that - which makes his attractiveness to women even more puzzling. Especially the rich wife of the American bigshot who I will get to shortly. It's just not believable she would give this sweaty, unwashed and confused clown a second look. Especially with his profligate use of the F-word, which accomplishes nothing of value and is yet another anachronistic screwup.

Episode two had introduced us to Moritz, the AWOL brother of the idiotic lead character, as the former "interacts" with a German woman who he is certain had been a death camp guard during the War. This is such a moronic subplot and it quickly goes off the rails. The actor who plays the wacko brother is much too hammy, like Sean Penn when he's certain he's going to get an Oscar (as he obviously was in "I Am Sam"). He overdoes it in a big way. The mindless torture scenes are so unnecessary and are as gimmicky as an early JamesBond movie.

Probably the worst dialogue in this horribly written script is between Max and Tom Franklin (Michael C. Hall of "Dexter" fame), who is the omnipotent American "vice consul". He is supposed to be some sort of civilian acting as a kind of post-War military governor of the U. S. sector of Berlin (again, there is no grasp of actual history here). It's an unbelievably mindless setup, and the dialogue is even worse. The vice consul expects this half-witted civilian NYPD officer to investigate the kidnapping and murder of two U. S. soldiers. Huh? It's like the screenwriter has forgotten about the thousands of military police that were everywhere in post-War Berlin, and they had ALL the authority and jurisdiction. It's all beyond ludicrous. Hall does a terrible job here playing the pompous American bigshot with a weird blue-blood accent. He even once refers to his wife as "pulchrudinous"! I can only surmise he meant "pulchritudinous", and nobody caught the awful gaff. One never looks stupider than when trying to use a big word and muffing it. Whether it was Hall's screwup or the hack screenwriter's, somebody should have caught it. But then, they didn't catch so much else.

On the next level of stupidity are the interactions between Max and the American major general who served over Max's brother Moritz. Besides the terrible uniforms the general wears (his shoulder patch is not even sewn on, it's about to fall off), it's not believable that a two-star general would intimately remember every sergeant in his command. Yet Max is demanding to know what his brother was like "on a personal level" (HAHAHA!) after they had encountered "Dock-ow" (apparently that's how "Dachau" is pronounced by an actor who cannot do a believable New York accent). This is SO laughably idiotic!! As is the grumpy general's response that indicates the already unbalanced AWOL brother suffered more than all the other soldiers at the horrors they found. The general valiantly struggles with his emotions as he implies that the crazy sergeant is justified in doing what he's doing (running around torturing and murdering war criminals).

As for the Angel Maker subplot, it's just pointless, boring and very poorly written. Of course, it is. Why would it be any different?

I have decided to keep watching this horrendous tripe. It has become a challenge to see how much blatant stupidity I can endure - and I used to work for the federal government, so the threshold is very high.