What I’m Watching: Hunters (Season Premiere)

Hunters: Season 2, Episode 1 “Van Glooten's Day 1972 Butter Sculptor of the Year” (B+)

I honestly didn’t think this show was coming back. I remember watching all of season one while I was quarantining at the very beginning of COVID more than two and a half years ago now, and it was way back in August 2020 that the show got renewed, with no news of anything happening after that until last month, when season two was confirmed as the last. I think that’s fine given that two seasons will probably be enough, and there’s enough depraved violence that can fill just the remaining seven episodes. I couldn’t figure out where I knew the woman introduced in Germany in the opening scene, and I realized when I saw her name in the credits that it was due to Jennifer Jason Leigh’s accent. She was chilling in her new role, and cutting out the shopowner’s eyes was quite a brutal act. It’s interesting to see that Al Pacino is sticking around as Meyer given that we know that’s not who he is and he’s dead, and it seems like it’s just going to be to explain more about how he maintained his cover identity for so long. I like that Millie called Jonah for help when she found herself in trouble, and that he’s now armed with the knowledge that Hitler is still alive. That final shot of a much older Hitler was intense, and I think Udo Kier is a superb choice to play it, even if seeing him always makes me think of a funny moment from a virtual press junket where he used his signature booming voice to encourage a reporter to unmute himself.