Am I Missing Something?

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

They re-hash all the previously known information from history. There is not much new in what they bring to the table. The field work is the most interesting part of this. I am writing this review mostly out of an intense repulsion to Tim Kennedy, though.Tim Kennedy is like a 4-year old and I have almost quit watching because of him, many times. I cannot stand his stupid exaggerations and overly inflated enthusiasm. It is a mockery and detracts from the authenticity of the series. He has the right background and skills set to compliment the team, but the wrong expressions and reactions.It also seems that many of the locals do not take the team seriously. In addition, there are such insane assumptions made from a scrap of very general information. The deductions are absurd. In Paraguay there is a Germany consulate and they re-name stating back to the person, a "Nazi" consulate. No, it was a GERMAN consulate because the country was not re-named Naziland. It was Germany. Also, to assume that it was a central hub of intense power, just because it was a consulate where there were gatherings of Germans is absurd. Of course there would be gatherings of Germans there. It was the GERMAN consulate. Idiots!And the Bat Signal they found of the schwastika emblazoned lighthouse bulb, I really expected Tim to make a joke about Batman. But then I think that would be trademark infringement. I am sure he did and it was edited out for legal purposes."This wall is thick enough to stop a bullet so it must have been a guard shack to protect some high valued target!" Wow! Then ANY building could qualify as that. Or the disintegrated chair on a rock ledge was not a quiet place to get away from the wife and watch nature, was it? It was some guard post to spot people coming up the valley, though the people would have been invisible due to the canopy of the trees! IDIOTS!!!Stupid exaggerations and wild speculations, one after another, are generated to inflate the drama of an action-less series. I watch this series, though, because of the re-iteration of history and the field work. I just wish they did it without the Shatner-ish dramatizations and that they would say, "Here is what we have already known for decades that is not taught in History classes..." Then when they discover something truly new to add to the corpus of knowledge on the subject we can all get truly excited and cheer them on!

How is the local contact girl named Laura (Lara) in season 3 episode 7?

I can't say that I dislike this show because there is a level of intrigue in the historical interpretation. Firstly, they need to appreciate and acknowledge that not all Germans were Nazis and not all Nazis were evil. The reality of it was that a comparatively small number in the Nazi party would have had knowledge of the atrocities. The way that the cast of this show talk, it begins to sound as though every German in 1945 was a Nazi. I am sure that a German audience today would find this at least somewhat offensive. The constant reference to declassified files is somewhat amusing, especially when you consider that much of the information that they reveal is readily available on Wikipedia. A good example of this is the Norwegian power plant that was producing Heavy Water. During the course of the war, that plant was subjected to many air raids and attacks from the Norwegian resistance in order to stop the production of Heavy Water. The escape route through Norway: Why would Hitler choose an escape route which took him in the opposite direction to his desired destination? If he wanted to get to South America, then the least logical course of action is to head to Norway. From there he board a submarine or airplane. This is then going to take him through territory that is heavily patrolled by allied air and sea forces and likely subject to radar coverage. The escape route through Spain: Nothing surprising there as Spain was also a Fascist state that was grateful for German assistance during their civil war. The fact that they had eye witness accounts of German submarines using their port facilities was interesting but not surprising. The escape route through Switzerland: There was no mention of this option although it would be logical to cross the border, assume a new identity and then travel freely to wherever you wanted to be. I am guessing that they didn't want to ask the Swiss authorities if they had aided the Nazis during the war.. The Drama: When Tim Kennedy climbed into the rubble below the Norwegian power station, he was behaving as though he expected to find a barrel of heavy water with a swastika on it and writing saying "Please deliver to the secret nuclear development center in Argentina" written on it. When they found a jet engine component in the rubble at the German airfield he was behaving as though it was a massive historical discovery. In reality he just confirmed what everyone who lived there already knew. It was a base where they tested new aircraft. Tim also went way over the top when looking at locations that were used by these people and how they could be defended from potential attackers. They were investigating the reported crash of a German flying boat in an Argentinian lagoon and were surprised to find wreckage. What they didn't do at this point was try to identify the type of aircraft that it came from. My conclusion is that this show would be much more palatable if they had explained how Germans both good and bad had escaped their homeland and then shown the infrastructures and settlements that they had created.

Interesting search that has been attempted before. One show a couple of years or more ago indicated Hitler escaped through the south route to the northern coast of Spain where eye witnesses confirmed seeing him there and Nazi subs were reported as being seen in port. So why the supposition of a northern route when towards the end of WWII the Baltic Sea and North Sea would be rife with allied war ships and submarines. If others made it to Argentina, then so did Hitler. As for the "fluff" of investigating Norway for supposed heavy water resources at the end or after WWII to ship to Argentina, the Norwegian "Heroes of Telemark" are on record of sinking the Nazi ship carrying the heavy water to Germany and many of the Heroes lost their lives saving ours. Maybe the cast just wanted to see more of Norway and created a reason. Unlikely any second heavy water run would have succeeded in that environment. So, why waste the time pretending to investigate something that the Norwegians ended. Many interesting chronicled discoveries in South America seem to confirm a subversive Nazi effort to rise again in some way. So the Hitler series is worthwhile investigating the South American presence. However, there is much supposition as to who was where.