Amazon’s New Series Turns Nazi Hunters Into Comic Book Heroes. In Real Life, They Were Even Cooler. | Esquire

Amazon’s new series Hunters bills itself as being inspired by true events, but you don’t have to watch more than the first few minutes to realize that the Jordan Peele-produced tale of 1970s New York Nazi hunters is only loosely based on the real people who’ve spent the 75 years since the end of World War II working to bring former Nazis to justice. Creator David Weil told Entertainment Weekly that when he heard stories from his Holocaust-survivor grandmother growing up, he saw them „as comic book stories, stories of grand good versus grand evil, and that became the lens through which I saw the Holocaust.” The series is full of comic-worthy action scenes, and features a Nazi-pursuing crew that includes an old married couple who happen to be weapons experts, a Vietnam veteran, and one very tough nun. They even call their headquarters the Batcave.