I thoroughly enjoyed Season 1, good script, acting and filming. Season 2 has good acting and filming too, but the script is, sorry to say, a complete joke. Whoever wrote it had no clue about police procedures and even less about SWAT teams. The lack of competence and erratic decisions displayed by the forces in Season 2 is laughable. Imagine scores of people are killed in a country with low crime rate, who would you assign for the investigation? Denmark sends the local version of Tomb Raider's Lara Croft, Germany a womanizer with tattoos who has no clue about policework, Belgium gives the lead to a young nerd. No wonder there is a growing number of casualties... The further I got in this season, the more nonsensical it became. Let me give 3 examples (sorry for the spoilers) : There is a scene where criminals are in a warehouse and a heavily armed 20-strong SWAT team is going for them. They break into the front door, take a few people only to find out the main suspect simply walks out the back door, that nobody apparently thought of covering. He is then chased by 2 ill-equipped detectives while the SWAT team seems to have vanished... Other than that everyone (police, criminals and illegal immigrants alike) travel unrestricted through Europe at warp speed but when the detectives need to go to a building a few blocks away it takes them forever. And the main suspect has telepathic vision given that he knows all the hidden entry and exit points of buildings he never visited. Hilarious, sorry.
Which is a shame, the theme is very contemporary, this could have been a strong story. So a 7 for the overall series, Season 1 is a must see. Very good choice to have people speak their own language instead of everyone speaking English.
The Team
(2015–2018)
Season 1 excellent, Season 2 needed a better script
3 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers