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Enjoyed every episode of the 3 series of this clever European sci-fi action drama. Here, it's team work and people with different skillsets that win the day, not the sole action hero. Why the show is only rated a 6.x is beyond me. My wife and I were in the edge of our seats most of the time. Perhaps the flow of blood wasn't high enough although there is plenty of action. The body count is in the billions so it can't be that. Watch it if you like post-apocalyptic stories that play out in various countries (France and UK) with their respective languages. The effects, story, casting and acting were top notch while there isn't a solitary hero. Full marks.

The first season was well written and had a good storyline, so I was excited when season 2 popped up on Apple TV. What a gigantic disappointment. S2 is completely different - in a bad way. A story that is all over the place and characters who try hard to be as unlikable as possible. The only saving grace are the excellent actors. Only my opinion of course.

I quite enjoyed this film until the first taunts from one of the German U-Boat commanders was received over the radio. That actually never happened for several reasons: it was difficult to broadcast on an enemy radio frequency and more importantly there was a mutual respect between the German and Allied navy crews. The German U-Boat crews were people having to do a job albeit for a monstrous regime. "Das Boot" depicts the life on a German U-Boat during WW2 quite well and at the end of it I felt for the crew and amazingly they weren't mindless Nazi zombies, quite to the contrary.