Holy shit is this show a hot fucking mess. The premise is great, hell there are even some good things about it. But there are so many mindbogglingly bad choices that just sink this and it was pretty much a slog to get through. The showrunners are not nearly as clever as they think they are and with every cutaway you can hear the writers' room patting itself on the back.

The casting of The Hunters (aka The Uncharasmatic Basterds) outside of Al Pacino, Saul Rubinek and Carol Kane ranges from medicore to 'how do you have a job as an actor?' I spent many scenes wondering if those three veterans were at all embarrassed by the writing. There's a way to make this show that's a success but this ain't it.

There's some fun and even great work turned in by a really going for it Dylan Baker, Jerrika Hinton (who more than holds her own in a scene w/ Pacino), Greg Austin, Lena Olin, and that gas station from 'The Irishman' but ultimately they are letdown by their writers and directors.

Josh Radnor's character is hands down one of the worst characters in anything I've seen in anything and the dips dramatically in quality every time he's on screen.

The show is setup to continue but I can't imagine it will. Grindhouse pastiche already has a limited audience even when it's done well. For it to be done poorly and about the Holocaust is enough to sink this on its own. But the resolution of this season heading into season 2 nearly ensures this will be a one-and-done. A single season 'Hey Remember that show about Al Pacino as a Jewish Nazi Hunter? What were they thinking?!' curio.

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A lot of you players ain't okay.

We would have been better off with an okaycivics board instead of an okayactivist board