![]() The series begins in the Germany-occupied port town of La Rochelle, France, in 1942 (roughly nine months after the film’s ending). What makes Das Boot particularly riveting, of course, is that so much of it takes place within the confines of a German U-boat (the vessel language before “submarine” was in use), with dangerous missions and pretty terrible conditions for the men in many cases, the U-boats themselves were untested (a feature in the original film, as well). Lizzy Caplan ( Castle Rock, Masters of Sex) and Vincent Kartheiser ( Mad Men) are Americans in the cast, but this is primarily a German effort with some French actors (and there are subtitles abounding, but mostly the actors are speaking English). Don’t waste your time and watch Greyhound (2020) instead.It’s not critical to have seen the original movie (though fans of German cinema will undoubtedly tell you to go do it anyway), since this eight-part series picks up where that one ended, thus becoming more of a sequel while still relying on the two source books from author Lothar-Gunther Buchheim ( Das Boot, Die Festung). I’m going to give this tripe one point, for some nice visual effects and the use of a real WW2 German submarine. Kind of like Battlefield V, a game that re-wrote history and claimed that WW2’s outcome was decided by scowling feminists (my new favorite term!). My guess is that it’s spiteful sabotage, to take a 20th century classic about the toils of war and male sacrifice, in an arena with obscene attrition rates, and use it to essentially troll. Just what the fuck any of this has to do with the War in the Atlantic is anyone’s guess. And yet in this show, we have a bunch of scowling feminists (because to smile is weak, y’see, gotta be a butch try-hard badass) calling the shots. Even less were fighters – of 1,000+ honored by Charles de Gaulle in the Order of Liberation, only six were female. In the French Resistance in WW2, around 10% of its members were female. In this show, about a U-Boat, but focusing squarely on feminists in France, they couldn’t even get that part right and instead deferred to insane propaganda. Upon interrogation, she is beaten up, but shakes off full force punches to the face from a powerful man, throwing up a ‘badass defiant’ glare back at him, as the camera zooms in on her communist tattoo in an endearing manner. One scene depicts the capture of a feminist communist. Yet this show, clearly spitefully, depicts them as cowardly, inept and ill-organized thugs.Īnd in Europe, where most of this takes place, the cringe is off the charts. In all of WW2 recorded history, there is not one instance of a mutiny on a German U-Boat, and such crews were generally very close and disciplined, even more than special forces in some sense. New recruits are violently beaten for trivial throwaway comments, and the Captain is questioned and disrespected. The crew of the boat are ill-disciplined and even mutinous. And even though they’re in the narrative and visual minority, the scenes at sea are a complete departure from historical reality. To be clear, this is not a reboot, but a loose ‘sequel’, with the two central characters being a female French resistance member and the Captain of the boat. Astonishingly, in this show about a U-Boat, the majority of it follows French feminists skulking around Paris, kicking ass, taking names and winning the war, in scenes that have little if anything to do with the War in the Atlantic. In this series, perhaps 30% of the show takes place on a U-Boat. In the original series/movie, we rarely left ‘the boat’, there were some scenes at the start on land before departure, or another scene here or there (such as the Captain boarding another Kriegsmarine vessel to receive some orders and supplies). Das Boot (2018) has to be seen to be believed, insofar as just how bald-faced it is as little else other than extremist propaganda. Funded partly Sky TV, it is a big-budget TV series (the original also got an extended run as a TV series, I recommend finding that extended version instead of watching this.) that is currently running in Germany. ![]() They rebooted Das Boot, maybe somewhat quietly. What To Expect: Scowling feminists kicking ass and taking names, on land
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