![]() Taylor Kitsch puts in his best performance as Max since we saw him as Riggins in Friday Night Lights. The action is literally searing and bone crunching, and the acting delivers. ![]() They range from Max (NYPD cop on hand to help out in Germany, but really there to find his brother) and Elsie (a German cop determined to do the right thing), to Max's brother Moritz (a psychotic Nazi hunter) and Tom (Max's boss, lining his pocket with proceeds from smuggled art that the Nazi's stole during the war) to the "Angel Maker" (a Nazi doctor who preys on young women) and Karin (a young woman who assists and urges the Angel Maker to do even more). Like all powerful, complex narratives, The Defeated has characters with all shades of loyalties and goals. Co-produced by German and Canadian companies, it's evocative of both Babylon Berlin and Hunters, with an on-the-scene Rome: Open City ambience and a piercing morality all its own. A powerful, riveting, brutally honest, at times brutal, at times tender, eight-episode 2020 mini-series that takes place in Germany just after the Nazis lost the war in 1945. ![]() My wife and I just saw The Defeated aka Shadowplay on Netflix. ![]()
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