This series suffers from major flaws.
The elephant in the room is the story itself which is totally absurd and feels forced in every way. Where the original movie's story was simple, a boat going on patrol and trying to make it back, this series tried to tick of so many boxes that it ultimately failed as a whole.
The series proudly takes on the title "Das Boot". Yet 50% of the story has nothing to do with any boat. Let alone a submarine. You get an unrealistic resistance story to which is added a totally absurd love triangle(which is made politically correct to fit current day standards on 1940's characters). This whole storyline is force-fed to the viewer who really is watching "Das Boot" to see... the boat.
Then we have the submarine storyline which is unrealistic at best. The production team seems to have done no research whatsoever about the U-Boat war. We are presented witch a crew of unlikable cliché characters who have to work a clean and wide submarine which seems to have a good airco on board. Standard submarine protocols are ignored in favor of Vanilla Soap-like events. We get a special mission, a dead character who comes back to life, a mutiny, a Russian ghosship (carrying Germans?!) and another character who comes back from the dead. From sailors to Kaleuns they don't in any way act like basic characters from that time period would have.
They tried to add so many levels in both the storylines that 8 episodes don't get you the needed character development which contributes to the story feeling rushed from about episode 2 and not really any interest in the characters.
They should have called it "once upon a time in La Rochelle"... this would have allowed them to make a vanilla story without the very high expectations.Keep with the original movie or mini series and avoid this one.
The series proudly takes on the title "Das Boot". Yet 50% of the story has nothing to do with any boat. Let alone a submarine. You get an unrealistic resistance story to which is added a totally absurd love triangle(which is made politically correct to fit current day standards on 1940's characters). This whole storyline is force-fed to the viewer who really is watching "Das Boot" to see... the boat.
Then we have the submarine storyline which is unrealistic at best. The production team seems to have done no research whatsoever about the U-Boat war. We are presented witch a crew of unlikable cliché characters who have to work a clean and wide submarine which seems to have a good airco on board. Standard submarine protocols are ignored in favor of Vanilla Soap-like events. We get a special mission, a dead character who comes back to life, a mutiny, a Russian ghosship (carrying Germans?!) and another character who comes back from the dead. From sailors to Kaleuns they don't in any way act like basic characters from that time period would have.
They tried to add so many levels in both the storylines that 8 episodes don't get you the needed character development which contributes to the story feeling rushed from about episode 2 and not really any interest in the characters.
They should have called it "once upon a time in La Rochelle"... this would have allowed them to make a vanilla story without the very high expectations.Keep with the original movie or mini series and avoid this one.
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