It wants to be a harrowing remembrance of the suffering of the Holocaust, a satisfying revenge fantasy, a sensational period piece, and a dark comedy. The episode opens with a young boy running through a verdant field with a red ball. According to the TV series Hunting Hitler, Adolf Hitler escaped Germany and fled to Argentina via submarine shortly after World War II, and while he was there, other Nazis around the world were plotting for another war and the creation of the Fourth Reich.

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The Hunters season 1 ending concludes with a cliffhanger twist that opens up lots of possibilities for season 2 and beyond.

Al and Logan both just really helped shape that scene in such a powerful way. Amazon’s Jordan Peele-produced drama about Nazi hunters in the 1970s feels made with this specific moment when white nationalist sentiment gets parroted by government officials and in the national news. There are millions of stories and I think that I was intrigued by the opportunity to, if we are to have a second season and have it be in Europe, see how stories can take our characters almost to the past. However, the world of entertainment remains my true passion and I love to explore how my Jewish background intersects with pop culture.

And so, the real Zuchs, The Wolf, revealed that he fled from the Russians, killed the real Meyer, and wrote a note as Meyer for Ruth. Not giving them redemption by any means, but in understanding them, I think it allows us to prevent a genocide like the Holocaust from happening again. [It] was definitely inspired by [The Boys From Brazil] but in a more grounded way. Hunters has a premise that feels like a double entendre. A Jewish man named Meyer Offerman (Al Pacino) assembles a diverse team, including Lonny Flash (Josh Radnor), Roxy Jones (Tiffany Boone), Joe Torrance (Louis Ozawa), Sister Harriet (Kate Mulvany), Mindy Markowitz (Carol Kane), and Jonah Heidelbaum (Logan Lerman) - the grandson of Holocaust survivor Ruth Heidelbaum (Jeannie Berlin).

Pack your bags because the Hunters are going abroad! Mazel tov!

Oh, but that didn’t happen in the world of Hunters. It seems likely that there's a religious connection between Sister Harriet and her mysterious contact. WEIL: For me as a Jewish kid, it was always such a travesty that Hitler was never brought to justice. And we went to Warsaw.

The Jordan Peele-produced series is definitely not the show you’re expecting. To flesh them out, to make them as multi-dimensional as possible, so that we could understand them in [a way].

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It just clicked.

WEIL: I think there is great opportunity to showcase [that].

I wanted to tap into inherited trauma for Jonah … I think I was able to express it through Jonah killing the person who killed his own grandfather.

By the end of Season 1, the titular group is down three members.

I think for our heroes to be hunting and going after incredibly dangerous, incredibly evil individuals, the fear and the rift of death is always present … I wanted to follow through with that to help this feel as real as possible and to really explore the cost of heroism.

For one, Joe Torrance was kidnapped by The Colonel/Eva and now has personally seen the Third Reich Führer in person. Jonah asks if anyone else wants to leave, and makes it clear that there are more Nazis to hunt.

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