Das boot tv review series#

Everyone Has Standards: When Sam Greenwood Jr.

Divided We Fall: Kaleun Hoffmann's pep talk to his men: 'There's only one way we can survive: together.'.

Wrangel does not reappear until Episode 4.

Decoy Protagonist: Wrangel and his boat are the first to appear when the show starts, and they are immediately attacked and sunk by the Americans.

And, of course, depth charges for the submarine.

The submarine's crew responds by opening fire with the deck gun.

Allied planes are seen attacking the U-612.

Coup de Grâce: Employed by (and on) a number of characters.

Prior to the war, he happily rearmed Nazi Germany, and is planning to campaign for US President with the money he got from it.

Corrupt Corporate Executive: Samuel Greenwood, Sr.

Conflicting Loyalty: Hoffmann or Wrangel?.A white hat was the unofficial way of distinguishing a captain on a German vessel. Tennstedt prefers to skulk around in head-to-toe black because he's disloyal and bitter. Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Hoffmann, generally the 'innocent' party, has a white hat, white shirt, light grey scarf, and at one point some rather fetching light tan trousers.Bury Your Gays: Simone and Carla, the show's two queer characters (a couple too) are killed off.Bring Them Around: Wrangel after seizing the command.Bluff the Imposter: On the Russian ship, Wrangel bluffs the captain by asking him if he fought against Gorodnjanski's 57th Army on the Eastern Front, before then saying that Podlas was the Soviet commander.Black-and-Grey Morality: The Nazis are naturally one of the most viscerally evil regimes in world history, but Carla's cell of resistance fighters are shown to be comparably vicious.Big Bad: Wrangel at sea, Forster at land.She manages to stab him in the leg before he can, and he nearly dies from the blood loss. Attempted Rape: Forster attempts to rape Simone after discovering she's the mole.Attack! Attack! Attack!: Under the command of Wrangel.U-949 in the third season is fictious - the numbering skipped from 930 to 951.The second season takes place in winter 1942 and focuses on U-822, which was commissioned in 1944 and did not partake in any war patrols.Historically, such an easy target like this would have been sunk with the deck gun. The small Soviet vessel is sunk with two torpedoes.It didn't even see combat, it sank after colliding with another U-Boot, was raised, used for training and was ultimately scuttled when the Red Army invaded East Prussia. The real U-612 operated in the Baltic Sea, not in the Atlantic Ocean (La Rochelle is situated on the French Atlantic coast).Action Girl: Carla Monroe, an American woman fighting with the French Resistance and veteran of the Spanish Civil War.Two further seasons aired in 20, taking the story up to mid-1943, with a fourth season ordered. The cast includes Rick Okon as Captain-Lieutenant ( Kaleun) Klaus Hoffmann, Vicky Krieps as interpreter Simone Strasser, Robert Stadlober, Leonard Schleicher, Rainer Bock, August Wittgenstein, Franz Dinda, Tom Wlaschiha, Vincent Kartheiser, James D'Arcy, Thierry Frémont, Stefan Konarske and Lizzy Caplan. The focus is on both the claustrophobic life for the crew of the submarine and the French Resistance trying to disrupt their activities in the port city of La Rochelle. The storyline is split into two narratives, one based on land, the other set around a German submarine, the U-612.

Das boot tv review series#

The series takes place in 1942, 9 months after the end of the film. Speaking of which, it should not be confused with the 1985 Re-Cut into a mini-series. It's been conceived as a Sequel/ Spin-Off to the 1981 World War II submarine warfare film Das Boot. Das Boot ( The Boat) is a German series produced by Bavaria Film and directed by Andreas Prochaska.