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Entertaining action series that demonstrates how misinterpretation of data can lead an intelligence agency down the wrong rabbit hole... I like the setting of the show, Cape Town is not a setting often seen in US shows. A short series definitely worth watching.

Reminiscent of The Wire but with a different setting and very different cast of characters. Slow paced by today's standards but it allows the actors to actually act rather than running around with lots of jump cuts to make every scene seem hectic, don't get me wrong there is a decent amount of action but its used for effect in the story telling rather then being the main course. If more writers and directors aimed at producing something like this then we would see more exceptional shows rather then the drudge we are currently witnessing. Hopefully sometime soon people will realize that relying purely on spectacle has a diminishing return on investment but good storytelling is eternal.

A series produced in South Africa with superb scenic scenes of Cape Town and the natural beauty of South Africa, makes a most entertaining and thrilling complex movie. Though not difficult to follow it has many interesting angles to keep one guessing where it is leading to.

Beautifully filmed with excellent lighting makes it so much different from the run of the mill American productions. Worth a watch!

Update: Having now seen all 6 episodes, the latter installments ran out of steam and the conclusion was a bit muddled, influencing reduction of the series rating to 6.

A good series in an interesting South African Cape Town setting. Racial stereotypes in general are avoided i.e. not all black people are good and not all white people are bad although the Muslim fundamentalists seem to get a bad rap yet again. My criticisms are that the pace needs to be slightly picked up. I would also sincerely doubt whether a South African gangster would speak to the South African police in such a threatening manner I find that very difficult to believe especially regarding South African police. All in all a good series to be recommended; I look forward to finishing it.

Good script, good action but the acting was dire. Great twist at the end, in fact several twists throughout. Seems to be left to enable a second series. I hope so because I can forgive the awful acting because the script was so good.

Great interpretation of the Deon Meyer genre, and authentic non-US based action drans (ie not trying to be one of the nany many many US clone spy-series). Great scenery in new locations for tv shows, and good character development. My only criticism is a suggestion to up the pace slightly, to keep attention. Look forward to more Deon Meyer work.

The first episode is borning but after in the next episodes start to be interesting and as each episode past gets better.

Enjoyed the series. Suspenseful, unexpected turns in the storyline. Highly recommended

The show has enough redeeming qualities to keep you engaged but still has some week moments

First saw this series on mnet a few months ago. At first I was sceptical hence I only watched like 20mins and that was it. HBO picked it up so naturally I was intrigued. Damn!! Africa's own blacklist. . Can't wait for more

Hopefully there're be a second season. Things got a little rushed in the end and a couple of the story lines were incomplete.

...this is the way to do it. Scenes with people talking to each other only for the purpose of explaining things to the audience is remedial script writing. It is also bad script writing. Excellent thriller set up spoiled by lazy or amateur writing/directing.

First time I watched a South African TV serie and I liked it very much. Thrilling till the end. Dark and realistic, no Hollywood heroe stuff. Great acting, very nice cinematography and appreciated very much the soundtrack from Brendan Jury.

Hope to see a new season.

If you just follow one character called Lemmer played by James Gracie, it would probably be it. The rest of the people or stuff you can just ignores or skip..Lemmer goes trough actions most of the times and James Gracie plays the character well enough that makes me wanna watch this show. He somehow resemblance Nathan Drakes or something on his own adventure. I hope this guy get cast as lead for a better film or series in future.

A good fun series with a complex fun plot and lots of great locations across across Cape Town which I know extremely well. Some of the characters are excellent but others are really really bad. Rolanda Marais' character is terrible. And unbelievable but I guess we can't blame her. Stoppard is unlikely as American hero, but the rest are pretty good. Really liked Henna. He was terrific as the brooding, dangerous gangster.

An ok series and really a lot better than I expected but still only a 6.

I was quite surprised, good and entertaining thriller drama crime type of serie in the very original and unusual setting of South Africa.

8/10

The plot is ok, but when i started watching the serie, it was because Language: English, but that's not the case, yeah much of it is English, but a big part is South African, so there are NO half watch while you do something else. Or you will miss a lot of the plot, they switch so many times the language, starting in English and then jumping to South African, then back to English, and then back to s.... And i have NO clue why, cause every one does speak English, like mentioned, they can start a sentence in English then jump to South African language...

So why why ???

This is a well written series with great actors and a decent story. In only 6 episodes you actually come to like a few of the characters quite a bit. Give it a shot, you'll be glad ya did.

I wanted to like "Trackers" (S01, 5 eps, 1hr, Cinemax) but it's just too slowly paced and its few action scenes just don't pay off. The actors aren't attractive and their characters are dull/boring. And though this was an unusually short season of only 5 eps, I couldn't make it through #2, just couldn't. The story isn't great but it's not bad, but its execution is just so lacking. This is a South African production with subtitling at times for its contorted variant of English. The director of all five eps is an unaccomplished S African tv director, so meh, whatevs.

I really enjoy this series. The acting is good and the plot as well. It's a big plus that the setting is in South Africa and not USA.

This is terrible. It's days were numbered as far as I was concerned when the Police were able to insert a camera into the suspect's home at just the perfect location, obtaining a pin-sharp picture & record perfectly every conversation which the bad guys just happened to conduct directly in front of the camera. Then in ep 2, there was the laughable standoff where our unarmed hero manages to outwit & fend off about 8 diamond smugglers armed with AK47s. Add to this some poor acting and clumsy exposition, and I gave up before ep 2 ended. I assume the high ratings are from people connected to the production.

Great story line and great mini series. We want more

Where was Claire Danes? Sure, this lacked the smooth that you get with US peers but this mini series delivered great writing, superb showcasing of S African dynamics, and a credible plot. Casting was very sound, with some breakout performances. When's the next series?!

For the past few years we have been fortunate to be in a new golden age of Television or "peak TV" where we had a bounty of terrific new content. As with all ages this one has come to an end and a show like "Trackers" is the proof. Set in South Africa with bare bones production values Trackers is a laughable attempt to cash in on the Jack Ryan genre. The acting is uneven ranging from competent to amateurish. The pilot script was boring and mediocre with every cliche in the book, but the biggest sin of this community theater tv show was the directing -- which was a surprise because the director, Jyri Kähönen's credits include the excellent Finnish series Bordertown. Maybe the low budget didn't allow him to correct the most basic mistakes: Like an actor, who is supposed to be walking away from a bad job interview anticipates her cue and stops before she is called back. Skip this dog. There are much better shows out there for you to enjoy.