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The Secrets of Darabani
lavatch2 April 2019
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In most of the television miniseries, the programs drag by the time of Episode 6, as the filmmakers string the viewer along to a penultimate and final episode. "Hanna" is different. Program #6 was the most suspenseful and most action-paced thus far into the series.

Part of the success is due to the multi-dimensional characters. Young Sophie sells out Hanna and is overcome with self-loathing due to her selfishness. At the same time, she clearly has deep affection and even devotion to Hanna, intuiting that her friend has had such a traumatic past. We thus feel drawn to and repulsed by Sophie's actions.

There is an interesting scene in the middle of this episode when one of Sophie's friends discovers Hanna's birth record. He goes to his computer and pulls up Darabini, a city in the northernmost portion of Romania, bordering on Moldova and Ukraine. The boy discovers that the area is "blacked out." Darabani holds the secrets to the mysterious experimental project run with complicity of the CIA in training intelligent children to become killing machines. That was little Hanna's incubation period.

Another multi-dimensional character is Marissa Wiegler, who, in this episode, pretends to be Hanna's mother to claim her from Sophie's family. Marissa is not coming clean with Hanna when she promises to tell her the truth about her past provide her protection. Instead, she will be handing Hanna over to the nefarious middleman Sawyer. Yet, Marissa seems so compassionate and genuine that it is difficult for the audience not to empathize with her at least in select moments of the program.

All of these "human" elements in the narrative combine with a great action sequence in a hotel as the program's finale. Erik has escaped the clutches of Sawyer, surprising his guards who are about to kill him. He then ingeniously tracks Hanna through a CIA computer. The daring rescue takes place during a mad scramble in the hotel, including a fire alarm and stampede to a waiting helicopter.

Perhaps the greatest clue for learning about Hanna's past comes from Erik, who says at the start of the program, "She's smarter than all of us. You made her that way" and Hanna's admission that "I cannot control my body." The evidence points to a complete reconstitution of Hanna's DNA. Yet in the closing scene of this program, Hanna shows compassion in a moment when she could pull the trigger, yet draws back due to a stronger human impulse than her programming. This is great drama!
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6/10
Yet another subpar episode.
LegendaryFang5612 July 2021
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"She's smarter than all of us."

Cut to Hanna goofing around at a club, having sex with a random guy in the woods, sticking around with Sophie, claiming to care about her or whatever, and therefore, putting her and her dysfunctional family in harm's way, and other crap

Oh, and not to mention, she ended up getting saved by Erik. Yeah, she's definitely smarter than everyone else in this show.

Huh, you could've fooled me. She's FAR from smart. In fact, we're already six episodes in with two remaining, and there has yet to be demonstrative proof showing that she's not normal. Nothing to show that she's special. What a joke.
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5/10
Memory loss
Kajohns498 July 2020
Yes, memory loss on the part of Sophie. Does she remember a few episodes ago when they were returning from holiday and Hanna went Jason Bourne on those guys in the train station? Not a word about something so incredibly unbelievable and frightening? And what about the bad guys not checking out the stations CCTV to put Hanna with Sophie and track her that way. I actually had to check and make sure I wasn't mixing up the movie with the series. Maybe the gap in the episodes is playing with me but I've lost interest with so many plot holes.
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5/10
I like the show but hate this episode
rmorgansjd28 June 2020
The writers are trying to make Marissa human so the viewer can empathize with her. But she's awful and unbelievable. This actress was much better in The Killing. I plan to stop watching this show if it doesn't turn around quickly. Changing the focus on Marissa was a mistake. Sawyer is a much better character.
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5/10
You're Lucky, To Have What You Have....
wandernn1-81-6832749 August 2020
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Open here with Sawyer briefly interrogating Eric as Eric is doused with cold water and apparently seated in some room where a freezer unit is blowing cold air on him. I guess Atrex or whatever it is is also licensed to torture people as well as shoot them.

Hanna is back malingering in the Forest once again. Taking a walk I guess in familiar terrain as her friends await her in the camper van.

Sophie continues to hit on Anton, having no idea that Hanna slept with Anton while she was passed out in the van the night before. LOL. Hanna gives Anton the treatment he deserves.

+1 Star for Hanna's 'treatment' of Anton

Sawyer is getting impatient with Eric. Eric taunts Sawyer by explaining about the people who Sawyer works for, and how he is treated and will be treated by them.

Hanna explains to Sophie what happened with Anton. Hanna is honest. And Sophie is irate. Sophie tells Hanna to leave. Just in time too because when Sophie goes inside her house, Marissa is there posing as 'Claire', supposedly Hanna's mother who is 'looking for Hanna'.

Sophie doesn't give up Hanna at first, even tho Sophie is mad with Hanna, she doesn't admit she just got out of the camper van and left Hanna right there.

Hanna unfortunately has clouded judgement, and is sucked in to meeting Sophie and finds Marissa waiting for her. Apparently Sophie DID give Hanna up after all.

Marissa calls Sawyer and offers to give up Hanna. But first Hanna and Marissa return to Sophie's house to say goodbye to the family. Sophie drags Hanna off to her room and asks Hanna what the truth is.

Back where Eric is being held, the goons get the go ahead to off Eric. Of course one of them gets too close to Eric in the process, and Eric is able to overpower them and escape.

-1 Star for the illogic of having to put the gun against Eric's head to kill him, allowing him a chance to overpower the assassin and escape...cliche cliche

Eric gets Dieter to drive him to the airport , where Dieter explains to Eric how they threatened his family and he had no choice but to betray Eric.

Marissa and Hanna have made it to America? In the hotel, Marissa introduces Hanna to the all you can eat buffet! Only in America!! Eric arrives just in time to sweep Hanna from Marissa's hands. Handily, Sawyers helicopter was standing by just for Eric and Hanna to escape in.

The episode closes with an introduction to what is going to be another character involved in the show.

Really, this episode ends with a 5/10 . Just not impressive.
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