Propagandist

This production has some pros:

• Convincing teen (or so) actors and
• some nicely build environments

but several cons:

• adult actors that act as if they were teens and
• below average story, production values and CGI

So, for me it is a notch above the usual Disney channel quality for teen productions, and I probably will not continue to watch.

What I don't get are the reviews here that votes the series down, because Disney+ airs them only in the original audio. This is a flaw that has nothing to do with the series, and is highly unfair. If one is not able or willing to read, he or she should bring the protest to Disney, not spoiling the efforts of the persons involved in the production, they have nothing to do with the presentation in Disney+.

Of course, I also don't get the plethora of ten point ratings, friends & family maybe?

More than twenty years ago Fatih Akin created one of the best Rom-Com Road-Movie combination ever made: "Im Juli". A young man meets the love of his life, only to loose her a few hours later. So, he follows her through a plethora of perils but with the help of a girl he accidentally meets, discovers the true meaning of love. "Sachertorte" is merely the same movie, however instead of being shot at, nearly drowning or ending up in jail, the protagonist here has to endure the hospitality of the couches in Café Sacher for a hundred something days.

So, this one is neither an homage to its spiritual influence nor its namesake cake the "Sachertorte". While the cake excels by not being to sweet, the movie reeks of artificial sweetener.

All in all, its watchable, but go see "Im Juli" instead to see what really could be baked out of these ingredients.

This is a delicate subject, so please don't get me wrong, I really wanted to like this show. I love a good: "The Hunter Becomes The Hunted"-story a lot, especially when comes to Nazis and Jews. And of course, I know that a lot of war criminals were brought secretly to the Americas by the OSS/CIA, the Catholic Church and others of these so called: "Ratlines", so it's honourable to bring this subject to the public knowledge.

Unfortunately, this series is at max mediocre. It has a high production value, decent to A-list actors, but lacks mostly on the story side. It does not know if it wants to become a comic book, satire, revenge porn or drama. So, it lingers between these extremes, never going seriously into one direction.

The general approach to Nazis is also annoying, on one hand they are scheming, plotting, clandestine masterminds, on the other hand they are half-witted enough to try to install, for example, a well known war-criminal, who is easily identified by one of him random victims the very moment she gets a glimpse on him, into a high level political position where he is prone for a plethora of photographs being taken and tv-appearances being recorded. Are all other Nazi victims in the USA blind, or to poor to buy a tv-set or even a newspaper?

What really makes the show hard to watch are the language skills of the acting staff. Is it really so hard to find a German speaking actor in Hollywood, who can utter ten decent lines before getting killed? I mean they pretend to be Germans in the US, so they might have a German accent when speaking English, but shall speak German flawlessly. The level of German pronunciation is at best comparable to a first class of German 101. Being a "Goi" it's probably not my place to judge, but I think this is especially libellous to the Jews who are shown to be tortured and killed in the concentration camps. Many of these people were Germans for generations, which makes the atrocities brought over them by their countrymen even more disgusting. So being Germans they may be depicted with a dialect, not all Germans live in Hannover, but not with the gibberish we have to endure in the show. In my eyes that strips them of their dignity, again.