I hope there will be another season. This is very interesting and I learned a lot about what might have occurred. A lot of the plot seems to be based on factual history. A twist on the typical reality series. Well done!
18 Reviews
a great show and a reminder of unsung heros
ddrddr27 May 2019
A highly informative and interesting program
I do not usually go in for these reality type shows but this series is different, it accurately tracks the incredibly demanding process of becoming an SOE agent.
I have renewed respect for the young men and women who became SOE agents, many of the unsung heroes.
So I am immensely grateful to the producers of this excellent series for giving us a unique view and perspective of what it was like to put your life on the line for freedom and democracy
I do not usually go in for these reality type shows but this series is different, it accurately tracks the incredibly demanding process of becoming an SOE agent.
I have renewed respect for the young men and women who became SOE agents, many of the unsung heroes.
So I am immensely grateful to the producers of this excellent series for giving us a unique view and perspective of what it was like to put your life on the line for freedom and democracy
Reality show combined with history
Miles-101 September 2018
Warning: Spoilers
During World War II, Britain had a program called Special Operations Executive (SOE) that trained and sent out saboteurs, assassins, radio operators, and insurgency organizers. The SOE was not initially trusted by the military and traditional intelligence services, but it was effective enough to lead to modern special forces programs. The original program accepted candidates from all walks of life and, unusual for its time, of both sexes. Yet the training was tough, and the question posed by this series is, can 14 contemporary men and women make it through the same course?
The diversity of the group chosen for this reality show is not very different from what a class in the 1940s might have looked like. One candidate is Asian, one is African, almost half are female, and one male is an amputee. (Historically, one of the SOE's female agents was an amputee; there was a male amputee, too, but, oddly, he is not mentioned.) Age was not much of a limit because life experience and accomplishment were favored. Several of the candidates on this show are well over 40. Only two have had military training. There is a physician, a mathematician, a paralegal, a scientist and at least one candidate owns his own business. More than one speaks a second language fluently. This last ability was mandatory in 1940 when agents were typically dropped behind enemy lines throughout Europe and in Africa. Some candidates on the show were born in foreign countries including a Polish woman and an American man, which was not untypical of the original SOE candidates. (700 Americans and a large number of Eastern Europeans went through SOE training.)
The course, including survival training, took place in a remote Scottish area. The first phase of SOE training, the hallmark of which was psychological tricks, is evaluation. Students are told to test their ability to memorize the map of a compound, but the class is unexpectedly subjected to a bit of excitement when men rush into the room shouting, and one of them fires a gun. Afterward, the class is asked to write a detailed account of what just happened. The trainers not only evaluated candidates' written reports, but they watched how each candidate behaved during the ruckus. Taking cover, for example, is reasonable, but if they cried and curled up in a ball, then SOE training might not be an ideal fit for them.
The program was good experience even for those who could not cut it. One of the women voiced an extreme fear of heights, but she overcame it when she had to climb in a rope-and-tree exercise. One of the staff's tricks is that when they give you an obstacle course, you can choose not to do all of the obstacles if you want, but you are going to lose points if you do not do most of them. One woman was asked by the female trainer why she did not crawl under the barbed wire. "I was afraid my hair might get caught in the wire." You could see from the look in the trainer's eyes that she was thinking, "Okay, princess." An amazing sight was the one-legged man who was one of the few to make it over a high wall. Another who made it over was a woman who must have been the shortest person in the class. (I will call her J because IMDb does not seem to have a cast list.)
Another task involved dividing the class into two groups and having each group, in turn, solve a problem in an outdoor setting. The group waiting its turn would be indoors so that they could not see the other group perform. For each group, the trainers assigned one candidate to be the leader, and the first group accepted the leader they were given - I will call him D - and he really took charge. Eventually they completed the task but only after several disasters and taking a long time to complete it. The second group, while they were waiting, anticipated that they might be asked to choose a leader, so they used their waiting time to elect one, a male I will call C. This caused confusion when the trainers selected a woman (I will call her W) to lead the group. One of the trainers later scratched her head while noting that W took charge out of the gate, but after twenty seconds C took over. Then several of the other group members began to chime in with suggestions verging on orders. The trainers, at that point, did not know about the election that had happened.
The second group ended up doing better than the more organized group. The task involved building a raft to cross a pond, and one of the members of the second team took a little walk around the edge of the pond and discovered a ready-made raft among the reeds. Not having to build a raft made the task go faster. The ready-made raft, by the way had been planted. If this seems unfair, think about it. Suppose you are in the middle of Nazi-occupied territory and you have to get away across a river or lake before the enemy comes for you. Are you going to try to build a raft from scratch or are you going to give a quick look around to see if there might not be a boat you could steal? In the SOE, thinking outside the box earns you well-deserved points.
At the end of the first phase, four candidates are cut and sent home. The woman who overcame her fear of heights makes an inspirational story, but she was too slow and timid to be a secret agent. The princess whose hair could not be brought into proximity with barbed wire was cut loose, too, as was the man who had to miss most of the evaluations because he was laid up with migraines. (Not tonight Adolf, I have a headache!) The rest go on to firearms training, hand-to-hand combat, sabotage (explosives), radio operation, codes and other skills that SOE agents need. Firearms training is a challenge. These are mostly Brits, and only the few who have had military training know anything about guns, but D, who had been to a shooting range on a trip to Las Vegas, had some bad habits and could hardly be trained out of them.
Several candidates - including D and J - have had some training in martial arts, but in hand-to-hand combat SOE emphasized "dirty fighting" including eye-gouging and groin checks. After some work on fighting skills, each candidate was told that there is a Gestapo officer in a room, and your mission, should you accept it, is to enter that room, identify the target (a dummy seated at a desk), "kill" him, and get out of there alive.
A negative trick in this exercise was the placement of two additional "guard" dummies that popped out from behind a curtain. Many people in a life or death situation develop tunnel vision. They only see one threat and not all of the other factors - including other potential threats. Some candidates attacked the seated dummy with deadly force but totally ignored the two guards. "You'd be dead," the trainers told them. A positive trick was that a thick wooden stick, suitable as a club, was on the desk in front of the seated "officer"; yet few of the candidates touched it or paid it any attention. One candidate only picked it up and used it on the second guard after he had used his hands to "kill" the other two dummies. The point was that anybody who had the presence of mind to pick up the stick would be able to kill all three enemies quickly, which would be an advantage - and possibly one necessary to real-world survival - in a one-against-three situation.
The occasional lessons on the historical SOE are not always candid. For example, the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in occupied Czechoslovakia did not go as smoothly as we are led to believe, rather showing that no amount of training guarantees complete mission success. We are told that two SOE agents attacked Heydrich using a machinegun and a hand grenade, but the narrator leaves out the fact that the gun failed to work and the grenade only wounded Heydrich. Had antibiotics been well-developed at the time, Heydrich might actually have survived, but they were not, and so the hated Nazi leader died a long, lingering death over more than a week.
The washouts continued during the second phase. D was a garrulous and confident candidate with business experience and martial arts training, but his reaction to being told about mistakes he made - in the Gestapo officer exercise, for example - was to explain away his behavior and choices in what one of the trainers described as a cavalier manner. D was good at rationalizing his mistakes rather than learning from them. Even after he was told to go home, he maintained that the trainers had just not seen what he had to offer. No. They saw what he had to offer, and his reaction to being washed out was an example of it.
B was an American male and, at 56, perhaps the oldest member of the class. He voluntarily withdrew well into the course because he realized he could not take the stress. There is a reason for age limits in these kinds of programs. Several members of the reality show's class were in their forties, but one often can do things up to the age of 45 that the same person might not be able to do at 55. It should also be noted that C, the one-legged man who does so well at all of the tests, is an ex-paratrooper. Experience counts.
By the time the class gets to the task of climbing a sheer cliff, there were only eight candidates left, fifty-fifty male/female, but two of the women were sidelined during that exercise for medical reasons(?). Of the two women who did climb, one nearly gave up, leaving J seemingly the only female candidate in the top half of the class, and she later excelled in the mental/manual skills taught at the "finishing school" in the final phase of the course where she learned to be a saboteur. Out of the original 14, only six graduated.
The diversity of the group chosen for this reality show is not very different from what a class in the 1940s might have looked like. One candidate is Asian, one is African, almost half are female, and one male is an amputee. (Historically, one of the SOE's female agents was an amputee; there was a male amputee, too, but, oddly, he is not mentioned.) Age was not much of a limit because life experience and accomplishment were favored. Several of the candidates on this show are well over 40. Only two have had military training. There is a physician, a mathematician, a paralegal, a scientist and at least one candidate owns his own business. More than one speaks a second language fluently. This last ability was mandatory in 1940 when agents were typically dropped behind enemy lines throughout Europe and in Africa. Some candidates on the show were born in foreign countries including a Polish woman and an American man, which was not untypical of the original SOE candidates. (700 Americans and a large number of Eastern Europeans went through SOE training.)
The course, including survival training, took place in a remote Scottish area. The first phase of SOE training, the hallmark of which was psychological tricks, is evaluation. Students are told to test their ability to memorize the map of a compound, but the class is unexpectedly subjected to a bit of excitement when men rush into the room shouting, and one of them fires a gun. Afterward, the class is asked to write a detailed account of what just happened. The trainers not only evaluated candidates' written reports, but they watched how each candidate behaved during the ruckus. Taking cover, for example, is reasonable, but if they cried and curled up in a ball, then SOE training might not be an ideal fit for them.
The program was good experience even for those who could not cut it. One of the women voiced an extreme fear of heights, but she overcame it when she had to climb in a rope-and-tree exercise. One of the staff's tricks is that when they give you an obstacle course, you can choose not to do all of the obstacles if you want, but you are going to lose points if you do not do most of them. One woman was asked by the female trainer why she did not crawl under the barbed wire. "I was afraid my hair might get caught in the wire." You could see from the look in the trainer's eyes that she was thinking, "Okay, princess." An amazing sight was the one-legged man who was one of the few to make it over a high wall. Another who made it over was a woman who must have been the shortest person in the class. (I will call her J because IMDb does not seem to have a cast list.)
Another task involved dividing the class into two groups and having each group, in turn, solve a problem in an outdoor setting. The group waiting its turn would be indoors so that they could not see the other group perform. For each group, the trainers assigned one candidate to be the leader, and the first group accepted the leader they were given - I will call him D - and he really took charge. Eventually they completed the task but only after several disasters and taking a long time to complete it. The second group, while they were waiting, anticipated that they might be asked to choose a leader, so they used their waiting time to elect one, a male I will call C. This caused confusion when the trainers selected a woman (I will call her W) to lead the group. One of the trainers later scratched her head while noting that W took charge out of the gate, but after twenty seconds C took over. Then several of the other group members began to chime in with suggestions verging on orders. The trainers, at that point, did not know about the election that had happened.
The second group ended up doing better than the more organized group. The task involved building a raft to cross a pond, and one of the members of the second team took a little walk around the edge of the pond and discovered a ready-made raft among the reeds. Not having to build a raft made the task go faster. The ready-made raft, by the way had been planted. If this seems unfair, think about it. Suppose you are in the middle of Nazi-occupied territory and you have to get away across a river or lake before the enemy comes for you. Are you going to try to build a raft from scratch or are you going to give a quick look around to see if there might not be a boat you could steal? In the SOE, thinking outside the box earns you well-deserved points.
At the end of the first phase, four candidates are cut and sent home. The woman who overcame her fear of heights makes an inspirational story, but she was too slow and timid to be a secret agent. The princess whose hair could not be brought into proximity with barbed wire was cut loose, too, as was the man who had to miss most of the evaluations because he was laid up with migraines. (Not tonight Adolf, I have a headache!) The rest go on to firearms training, hand-to-hand combat, sabotage (explosives), radio operation, codes and other skills that SOE agents need. Firearms training is a challenge. These are mostly Brits, and only the few who have had military training know anything about guns, but D, who had been to a shooting range on a trip to Las Vegas, had some bad habits and could hardly be trained out of them.
Several candidates - including D and J - have had some training in martial arts, but in hand-to-hand combat SOE emphasized "dirty fighting" including eye-gouging and groin checks. After some work on fighting skills, each candidate was told that there is a Gestapo officer in a room, and your mission, should you accept it, is to enter that room, identify the target (a dummy seated at a desk), "kill" him, and get out of there alive.
A negative trick in this exercise was the placement of two additional "guard" dummies that popped out from behind a curtain. Many people in a life or death situation develop tunnel vision. They only see one threat and not all of the other factors - including other potential threats. Some candidates attacked the seated dummy with deadly force but totally ignored the two guards. "You'd be dead," the trainers told them. A positive trick was that a thick wooden stick, suitable as a club, was on the desk in front of the seated "officer"; yet few of the candidates touched it or paid it any attention. One candidate only picked it up and used it on the second guard after he had used his hands to "kill" the other two dummies. The point was that anybody who had the presence of mind to pick up the stick would be able to kill all three enemies quickly, which would be an advantage - and possibly one necessary to real-world survival - in a one-against-three situation.
The occasional lessons on the historical SOE are not always candid. For example, the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in occupied Czechoslovakia did not go as smoothly as we are led to believe, rather showing that no amount of training guarantees complete mission success. We are told that two SOE agents attacked Heydrich using a machinegun and a hand grenade, but the narrator leaves out the fact that the gun failed to work and the grenade only wounded Heydrich. Had antibiotics been well-developed at the time, Heydrich might actually have survived, but they were not, and so the hated Nazi leader died a long, lingering death over more than a week.
The washouts continued during the second phase. D was a garrulous and confident candidate with business experience and martial arts training, but his reaction to being told about mistakes he made - in the Gestapo officer exercise, for example - was to explain away his behavior and choices in what one of the trainers described as a cavalier manner. D was good at rationalizing his mistakes rather than learning from them. Even after he was told to go home, he maintained that the trainers had just not seen what he had to offer. No. They saw what he had to offer, and his reaction to being washed out was an example of it.
B was an American male and, at 56, perhaps the oldest member of the class. He voluntarily withdrew well into the course because he realized he could not take the stress. There is a reason for age limits in these kinds of programs. Several members of the reality show's class were in their forties, but one often can do things up to the age of 45 that the same person might not be able to do at 55. It should also be noted that C, the one-legged man who does so well at all of the tests, is an ex-paratrooper. Experience counts.
By the time the class gets to the task of climbing a sheer cliff, there were only eight candidates left, fifty-fifty male/female, but two of the women were sidelined during that exercise for medical reasons(?). Of the two women who did climb, one nearly gave up, leaving J seemingly the only female candidate in the top half of the class, and she later excelled in the mental/manual skills taught at the "finishing school" in the final phase of the course where she learned to be a saboteur. Out of the original 14, only six graduated.
Great historical show
superrobb-4424327 July 2018
Very good programme and gives an insight into the SOE training
kate-436-23204222 January 2019
As a SOE living historian and a British Army veteran I found this series to be interesting and very informative. Frome the rat bomb to the unarmed combat it was following the SOE training manual. It is shame they couldn't have used the actual SOE Finishing School for the Finishing School and the Final Scheme but since that is now the National Motor Museum I suppose it would have caused too much disruption. I feel that it was left incomplete without the Parachute School
Surprisingly well done
ghatbkk21 July 2018
I wasn't quite sure I wanted to watch this, but once I got started, I'm happy I did. The historical links are solid and well-presented. Whether SOE was really as effective as the series hints at or not is a matter of conjecture, but there is absolutely no denying that the SOE training and missions had a significant effect not just on WWII, but on the development of the CIA para-military units, post-war SAS and the US Army Special Forces.
It was very interesting to see a very varied group from today put through the SOE syllabus and training program, to include peer assessment and self-selection (drops) that are still an integral part of SOF selection today. I was only surprised by one of the non-selections and none of the selections.
One of the best films I've ever seen.
mabartonst5 May 2019
I'm fond of espionage novels and films, especially World War II era. The concept here is brilliant: a group of modern women and men volunteer to undertake the same training program as British Special Operations Executive agents who were being prepared for intelligence-gathering, sabotage, support of local Resistance fighters, and covert communications in territories occupied by the Nazi enemy. This is reality television of a very high order. The participants, both volunteers and their instructors, are utterly convincing. The volunteers are exceptionally brave.
Enjoyable reality
Whoopz7 June 2020
When I started watching this show I didn't know what to expect.
I honestly thought it was going to be a typical documentary about World War II.
But I was wrong, it was actually much different from what I expected - and it was suprisingly enjoyable to watch. It's a mixture between a documentary and a reality show. Consisting of 14 civilian recruits coming from all sorts of backgrounds reenacting what it was like to become an SOE (Special Operations Executive) agent during World War II.
Normally I don't watch a great deal of reality, because I simply don't enjoy it. But this show was surprisingly well edited with enough content to keep me interested in it. I liked the instructors, as well as the participants, I think what also made it interesting was the fact that they had some unique backgrounds and varied personalities.
One of the downsides to the show is the fact that it's only 5 episodes long - even though it's well thought out, I don't think the format would be able to last more than 1 season. If you're interested in World War II history, I recommend this show. The process is quite fascinating.
But I was wrong, it was actually much different from what I expected - and it was suprisingly enjoyable to watch. It's a mixture between a documentary and a reality show. Consisting of 14 civilian recruits coming from all sorts of backgrounds reenacting what it was like to become an SOE (Special Operations Executive) agent during World War II.
Normally I don't watch a great deal of reality, because I simply don't enjoy it. But this show was surprisingly well edited with enough content to keep me interested in it. I liked the instructors, as well as the participants, I think what also made it interesting was the fact that they had some unique backgrounds and varied personalities.
One of the downsides to the show is the fact that it's only 5 episodes long - even though it's well thought out, I don't think the format would be able to last more than 1 season. If you're interested in World War II history, I recommend this show. The process is quite fascinating.
Many facts are doubtful in this series
raymond-andre3 July 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Historian Max Hastings as very critical in his judgement of the effectiveness of the SOE in a couple of his books. There is a lot of romantic garbage surrounding various accounts of both SOE and the various resistance movements they fostered. Going beyond that, the men and women recruited for the Strategic Operations Executive were brave souls and deserved to be honored.
This series attempts to show the selection and training process they went through before being sent to likely torture and death in the field. No joke hen one of the instructors says that the life expectancy of wireless operators was six weeks.
I rapidly became enamored (if that is the proper term) with several of the candidates (Copsey and Jeffries in particular). Yes it is reality television and much of the ground covered in the documentary segments (operation Anthropoid and the attack on the heavy water plant in Telemark) are well known and well covered stories to the point of nausea. HOWEVER, it is fascinating to see the SOE syllabus brought back to life in some form and to get the impressions of the participants going through the training process.
In one exercise it is easy to shrug off these 21st century people as they scale rock surfaces with their cushy safety lines preventing them from falling, while their historical counterparts would have been in real danger of falling to their deaths.Some of them really do suffer from fear of heights and no matter how well they are harnessed they are ascending 80 feet of vertical rock surface and surmounting their phobias.
The series illustrates the desperate measures in wartime that out grand parents or great grandparents resorted to to deliver us from the fascist regimes that much of the world succumbed to.
This series attempts to show the selection and training process they went through before being sent to likely torture and death in the field. No joke hen one of the instructors says that the life expectancy of wireless operators was six weeks.
I rapidly became enamored (if that is the proper term) with several of the candidates (Copsey and Jeffries in particular). Yes it is reality television and much of the ground covered in the documentary segments (operation Anthropoid and the attack on the heavy water plant in Telemark) are well known and well covered stories to the point of nausea. HOWEVER, it is fascinating to see the SOE syllabus brought back to life in some form and to get the impressions of the participants going through the training process.
In one exercise it is easy to shrug off these 21st century people as they scale rock surfaces with their cushy safety lines preventing them from falling, while their historical counterparts would have been in real danger of falling to their deaths.Some of them really do suffer from fear of heights and no matter how well they are harnessed they are ascending 80 feet of vertical rock surface and surmounting their phobias.
The series illustrates the desperate measures in wartime that out grand parents or great grandparents resorted to to deliver us from the fascist regimes that much of the world succumbed to.
Great show
azacadienne9 October 2018
YOU MUST BE JOKING OF COURSE.
bob-113521 April 2018
Warning: Spoilers
For a start will someone please tell these people how to dress? The so called ex Colonel has jammed his side cap over his head like a tea cosy. His pips are way off on his epaulettes. The uniforms only seem to fit where they touch.
As for weapons training you have to be joking, when you fire a weapon, short or long, you lean forward into it, not backwards like all these seem to be doing. The section on first introductions to firearms was a joke. Golden rule one, never point it anyone unless you want to kill them, second golden rule every time you handle a new fire arm check to see if it was loaded. The instructor failed to ensure his class did this. They then put their pistols in their pockets, great way to shoot yourself. I don't know why they had the ludicrous stuffing explosives into dead rats exercise, far better to show them how to blow things up. All in all a pretty poor show.
Proof positive that gender isn't the key factor, Eye-opening without being boring
gina-957394 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers
What I really appreciated about this "reality series" is that it made both history and my gratitude for those who risked their lives come alive. The series is generally well-paced. Its participants showed a lot of character, and the military facilitators shined--keeping their a excellent balance between compassion and insistence on participants learning the skills taught to the actual and would-be operatives necessary to keep them alive.
Very fascinating to watch how participants were assessed and how all reacted to the training exercises. Particularly interesting was the training on concealing their true identities and real-life attempts at keeping their cover stories during interrogations.
It's really inspiring as well to see that gender is nowhere a conclusive factor in important military missions.
I would strongly recommend that everyone watch this as a reminder of the bravery, courage and untapped talents that everyone has inside them as well as of the amazing heroes and heroines who would stood up despite danger and what most have been incredible loneliness during a war which many today have no living relative who can tell them how it was.
This is how TV is supposed to be.
Very fascinating to watch how participants were assessed and how all reacted to the training exercises. Particularly interesting was the training on concealing their true identities and real-life attempts at keeping their cover stories during interrogations.
It's really inspiring as well to see that gender is nowhere a conclusive factor in important military missions.
I would strongly recommend that everyone watch this as a reminder of the bravery, courage and untapped talents that everyone has inside them as well as of the amazing heroes and heroines who would stood up despite danger and what most have been incredible loneliness during a war which many today have no living relative who can tell them how it was.
This is how TV is supposed to be.
Understanding History by Experiencing It
jbpublic18 July 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Like other history reality series (Manor House, 1940s House), it is fascinating to see contemporary individuals come to grips with historical tools and processes ... and then have to 'make them work' to achieve a goal. Fourteen start, six survive -- and not necessarily the ones you'd expect. The facilitator judges are credible also, so it's an interesting insight into the British secret service in WWII. While some of the historical facts seemed slightly breathless and overblown, the human element was quite real and credibly done.
A great insight to the brave volunteers of the SOE
phrsmith24 April 2019
Reality TV show? not really it was more of an insight into how "ordinary" people from all sorts of backgrounds, men and women volunteered to put their lives on the line to win the war. I think it truly showed how those actually trainee agents of the time would have had failure and success, doubts and fears. It also shows just how much you can't judge a book by it's cover and that Hollywood portrait of what a spy should be is some way off the mark. So at the end of the training, would they have been completely confident to go on missions? probably not but would still go anyway.
Very Enjoyable
carolynaucoin25 January 2021
Real history by real people
Dave-Nelson-UK22 May 2019
I found the show by accident skipping through the channels glad I did
a fascinating series giving a glimpse of the training process for former SOE recruits , the training apparently is taken from declassified manuals its authentic as it can be , to the point you can no longer beat the recrutes or non are allowed to get killed during the training ,
There are a few stand out recruits. Lizzie Jeffreys. she looks the part , reminds me of. Honeysuckle Weeks. in Foyles War. , she has the same clipped posh voice small in stature ,but she is clearly a tough cookie
and Dan apparently a property developer , other reports say he's a model and an actor , well he had come dressed for the part , he looked like an extra from salad days , as fake as they come , most had worked him out day one
You see TV you can make reality shows if you try that make people think , lets see more of this
There are a few stand out recruits. Lizzie Jeffreys. she looks the part , reminds me of. Honeysuckle Weeks. in Foyles War. , she has the same clipped posh voice small in stature ,but she is clearly a tough cookie
and Dan apparently a property developer , other reports say he's a model and an actor , well he had come dressed for the part , he looked like an extra from salad days , as fake as they come , most had worked him out day one
You see TV you can make reality shows if you try that make people think , lets see more of this
Excellent Secret Agent Reality With History of WW2
PalmBeachG6 March 2024
This modern day reality show "Churchill's Secret Agent Selection: WW2" is excellent and can't be compared with any other reality shows I have ever seen. Really enjoyed the scenes from a UK historical view with real clips and descriptions of the secret missions of the actual secret agents of the time. The show, mixed with modern day candidates to participate in a competitive training program which mirrored what the real agents went through back then, make it unique. Candidates are interviewed and chosen on individual traits that each one possess and they are quite diverse. Who will make it and who will not? My personal favorite turned out to be Jeffreys, a very small short woman you would never expect to take down a grown highly trained man in a flash - you just can't judge people. Ea. Episode is a different kind of training. One thing it may have been lacking in training however is no mention of opposite sex trickery or getting involved with the wrong woman for example. I only say this because saw a different Netflix spy doc abt US spies that got caught and it seems approx. 90%+ it was because of falling for the wrong woman or getting stabbed in the back by double agents, etc. As innocent as this show seems with serious training lets face it - the opposite sexes are being paired together in the field in real life/death situations and temptations and jealousies come into play.
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