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The Hunters Experience

Amazon Took us to 1970's New York to experience their Nazi hunting drama

  • Lindsay Traves Lindsay Traves
  • February 21, 2020
  • 4 Minute Read

I wasn’t around New York City in the 1970’s, but I’ve watched enough movies to gather a vague idea of the streets.

Knowing World War II history, and the cultural divides in city neighbourhoods, it’s not a brand-new thought for me to imagine dilapidated townhouses in specific areas of the city populated by the offspring of Yiddish speaking Jewish grandparents. And that’s some of what Amazon Canada wanted to show us at this week’s event for Hunters. Transforming a Toronto concert hall into the streets of 70’s New York, we were surrounded by mustached cops leaning on light posts by subway stations, graffiti on walls, posts, and phone booths, and of course, spiced nuts and pretzels with the all-important grainy mustard. This to get us in the mood for their new series, Hunters, the tale of a group of vengeance-seeking Nazi killers looking to settle post-WWII scores.

The side stories of Nazi killers have always been solid fodder for media. Inglorious Basterds, loosely based on a gaggle of Nazi hunters during the war, was a successful cathartic romp that let us cheer on killers with moral superiority intact. We’ve killed them in video games, they’ve been lampooned in comedies, subjects of horror, and even the X-Men took on hunting retired Nazi doctors in First Class. Hunters is the newest take on vengeance against Nazis hiding in plain sight, with one of the most noticeable differences being that the show is incredibly Jewish.

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Lindsay Traves

Lindsay Traves

After submitting her Bachelor's thesis, “The Metaphysics of Schwarzenegger Movies,” Lindsay decided to focus on writing about her passions; sci-fi, horror, sports, and comic books. She covers movies and games for CGMagazine and you can follow her work on Twitter @smashtraves.
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