There has been much written, filmed and said about the events described in the mini series, yet Hitler's Circle of Evil manages to create a new perspective to the story that began essentially a century ago.
Storytelling is mostly dynamic and I went through the series almost "in one breath". In the first couple of episodes one might even find oneself rooting for couple of the antagonists. At times the series is slightly repetitive and it feels like every single scene with character swap begins with "Himmler, the arch-antisemite" or "Martin Bormann, the master whisperer" and so on, which is exhausting after third and fourth time.
I had issues with the strikingly non lookalike cast for non-historical shots. Considering the fact the cast was used purely for visuals and did not require whole lot of acting it is little bit difficult to digest. The only exception was "second" older Himmler.
Also (as a Czech) I found the vague description of events around Operation Anthropoid (Heydrich's assassination) disconcerning. None of the assassins were named and the pronounciation of the two wiped out villages was completely wrong (and it is not because the names are unpronouncable in English). I might be biased here, I live just 6km away from one of the villages. But Georg Esler's unsuccessful assassination attempt at Bürgerbräukeller was more developed, so there is that.
Overall it is a good historical soap opera, if you will.
Storytelling is mostly dynamic and I went through the series almost "in one breath". In the first couple of episodes one might even find oneself rooting for couple of the antagonists. At times the series is slightly repetitive and it feels like every single scene with character swap begins with "Himmler, the arch-antisemite" or "Martin Bormann, the master whisperer" and so on, which is exhausting after third and fourth time.
I had issues with the strikingly non lookalike cast for non-historical shots. Considering the fact the cast was used purely for visuals and did not require whole lot of acting it is little bit difficult to digest. The only exception was "second" older Himmler.
Also (as a Czech) I found the vague description of events around Operation Anthropoid (Heydrich's assassination) disconcerning. None of the assassins were named and the pronounciation of the two wiped out villages was completely wrong (and it is not because the names are unpronouncable in English). I might be biased here, I live just 6km away from one of the villages. But Georg Esler's unsuccessful assassination attempt at Bürgerbräukeller was more developed, so there is that.
Overall it is a good historical soap opera, if you will.