Partisan

This show had so much potential but for every episode that I watched it felt that they just let it all slip through their fingers more and more.

This could have been a movie instead of a series... all this could've been wrapped up in 90minutes basically. Unnecessary dialogues, lose ends, poor character backgrounds, illogical decisions and let's not even talk about the ending.

I give it a 3 because I liked the setting nothing else.

Some of the 'reviews' on here from 12 year olds who 'only watched one episode', who want more of 'The Killing, The Bridge'..Zzzzzzz. Yes!! It is a B movie, it's supposed to be, and while I agree the execution was not on point I can only assume this was probably due to various covid restrictions placed on the completion of the piece. If you like Whicker Man, The Prisoner, you'll understand this. Even people leaving it 1/10 can't stop themselves from leaving spoilers. Grow up.

The show got me hooked with the first two episodes, but after watching the last three last night I am extremely dissapointed - so many lose ends, strange decisions and plot holes...

You don't need to look too hard to interpret "Partisan" as a politicised drama.

There's is, for me, a pretty obvious message pushing multi-cultural-ism. That's no crime in itself but it's simplistic overtones, I feel, ignores many of the complex and often discordant issues, associated with this philosophy. Its hardly a one sided debate, by any means.

The other problem I have with this series is its associating what appears to be a cult of eugenics orientated supremacists, with green initiatives, like organic food. I personally fine it dubious given how much stress and damage, pesticide based, commercial agriculture, is causing to the environment.

Moving beyond these concerns, I came to this series primarily because I'm a big fan of actor Fares Fares, who I first encountered in film adaptations of Jussi Adler-Olsen's crime novels.

As per usual Fares hands in an excellent performance as Johnny the undercover cop. Indeed to be fair, so do other cast members. The cinematography is also, excellent.

That said, I can't find any degree of personal comfort in this series. My reservations about its tone and underlying messages, bothers me. For this reason I wont be watching any further.

5/10.

I've got to say, this kept me on my toes to the very end even though it felt, literally, goofy at some points. As many has pointed out, many decisions were uncalled for and were hard to get your head around. Hoping for a more straight ahead second season. Usually, when you have a great idea, the script will write itself. Somehow, that didn't happen here.