Hamilton

First season was good, i liked it alot.

Felt believable and down to earth, most of the time.

Second season is terrible.

Just another hollywood action series with characters doing rediculous stuff, acting misconduct and a just acting totally unprofessional all the time.

Not how you think of a realistic covert agent would act, not even close.

To bad, I was hoping it would follow the first seasons theme, but sadly no.

Hamilton has gone through many phases in Swedish filmatography. This setup is promising so far after the first episode. It captures the essence of the genre in a reliable but sped up way. I am looking forward to the rest of it

Summary

A modern espionage thriller, with an European perspective, about the complex plot behind an attack that takes place in Stockholm, with a special agent of confused loyalties in the framework of the rivalries between different secret services and the new scenarios and modes of action direct that they must decipher and face.

Review:

An attack is carried out in Stockholm on the occasion of a speech by the Swedish Interior Minister when Agent Hamilton, a member of the military intelligence, was circulating in the area. Who were the authors of the attack? With what objectives?

The question could be posed in other terms: who does Agent Hamilton work for (in charge of the handsome Jakob Oftebro), who came from doing special training with the CIA in the United States?

There are several actors at play in this modern espionage thriller, based on the novels by Jan Guillou: the Säpo (Swedish security police), with its counterintelligence and counter-terrorism functions, the MUST (Military Intelligence and Security Service) and others outside of Sweden that should not be disclosed.

It is a complex plot to unravel about the intellectual authors of the attack, in a very current scenario that shows rivalries and overlaps between the different security and intelligence services and a scenario with cyberattacks and fake news and that of course does not exclude intrigues and bullets. This game of transitory and suspicious alliances is manifested above all in the figure of Hamilton himself, a practically impenetrable character, and his relationship with his bosses and with the Säpo detective Kristin Ek (in a magnetic interpretation of Nina Zanjani), perhaps the character most interesting of the series.

In short, a modern espionage thriller from a European perspective.

Hamilton had the potential to be an asskicking nametaking punch in the face king of series. Instead it has become nothing more than a watered down continuation of swedish cop series. If you seen Wallander or Beck, you basically seen hamilton already.

It does not introduce anything new, it does not even work on the great storyteller jan guillou's very awesome characteristics.

So far, after 3 episodes it is boring, it is on the verge of being more interesting than playing on my cellphone.

I would not recomend this to anyone except maybe those that can not sleep because this is as boring as it gets.

Lots of interesting threads in this plot. The dialogue is pretty realistic and they avoid having characters do stupid things just to move the plot along. So, very watchable. It must be impossible for the Swedish directors to hear that Rowena King's American accent is horrible. Usually the Brits handle the accents perfectly, so we understand if they trusted that she could. But, not. Nonetheless, this nitpicking aside, very entertaining.