Update November 24, 2021: The third season became available today. At the end of season #2 Hanna, as Mia, at the swimming pool asks, "So, what now?" The first episode in season #3 doesn't specifically answer that but we are taken to a new class of teenage girls just finishing their training as assassins and given their assignments to different parts of the world. The show retains that sense of intrigue and "who can you trust" feeling. I look forward to watching all the episodes.
The 2011 movie "Hanna" is one of my favorites, but in reality a lot of story is compressed into its running time.
In season #1 Amazon Prime offered roughly 6 hours of story over 8 episodes. The first one, which I saw last night, is a fine start. The actress who plays Hanna is the daughter of Samantha Morton and she is fine in the role, but quite different from what Ronan brought to the role in the movie. As the series progressed I found myself liking the new Hanna character more and more. By the end of season #2 she owned the role.
The basic premise is the same but it is told somewhat differently. It is a bit darker and grittier and the scene where Hanna is discovered and captured is done quite differently from what is depicted in the movie. Neither good nor bad, just different. Also throughout they added enough "salty" language to get an "R" rating if this were a movie.
Now that I have watched the whole series I can say "pretty good effort." While all the story lines are consistent with the movie most are depicted quite differently, a lot more depth and extrapolation are added to the basic story lines and, most of it works quite well.
It is not useful to directly compare this Amzon series to the 2011 "Hanna" movie because they had different goals and they accomplished them differently. I say "kudos" to Amazon for bringing us this very interesting and entertaining series.
Season #1 ended close to where the movie ended so season #2 had to do an extrapolation of "what might have become of Hanna". It does a credible job of inventing something new. The experimental program to train young girls to become expert fighters has been restarted and Hanna becomes part of that, plus a handful of new and very interesting characters. This has become one of the better "invented for streaming" series. Hanna has the last line in season #2, at the swimming pool, "So, what now?"
The 2011 movie "Hanna" is one of my favorites, but in reality a lot of story is compressed into its running time.
In season #1 Amazon Prime offered roughly 6 hours of story over 8 episodes. The first one, which I saw last night, is a fine start. The actress who plays Hanna is the daughter of Samantha Morton and she is fine in the role, but quite different from what Ronan brought to the role in the movie. As the series progressed I found myself liking the new Hanna character more and more. By the end of season #2 she owned the role.
The basic premise is the same but it is told somewhat differently. It is a bit darker and grittier and the scene where Hanna is discovered and captured is done quite differently from what is depicted in the movie. Neither good nor bad, just different. Also throughout they added enough "salty" language to get an "R" rating if this were a movie.
Now that I have watched the whole series I can say "pretty good effort." While all the story lines are consistent with the movie most are depicted quite differently, a lot more depth and extrapolation are added to the basic story lines and, most of it works quite well.
It is not useful to directly compare this Amzon series to the 2011 "Hanna" movie because they had different goals and they accomplished them differently. I say "kudos" to Amazon for bringing us this very interesting and entertaining series.
Season #1 ended close to where the movie ended so season #2 had to do an extrapolation of "what might have become of Hanna". It does a credible job of inventing something new. The experimental program to train young girls to become expert fighters has been restarted and Hanna becomes part of that, plus a handful of new and very interesting characters. This has become one of the better "invented for streaming" series. Hanna has the last line in season #2, at the swimming pool, "So, what now?"