*Remember when Chad Michael Murray was being fast-tracked as the Next Big Thing?

The best part about the show was that the mom was Moria Kelly from the Cutting Edge and the dad was John Sears (sorry don’t know his real name) from 90210 (and he is the best villain and should be in everything - even his brief stint on mad men was great). So that is the reunion I want.

My favorite response to that is ‘Why are you telling me?’

OTOH there was an actual cabal focused on aiding the flight of Nazi War criminals to South America but it was more of a piecemeal thing than some massive global conspiracy. 

“I don’t care if you’re purple...”

one of my favorites is “I don’t see color!!!”

I have a friend who is a restaurant reviewer for a newspaper. He has a modest expense account. He takes his job very seriously and hates when people demand freebies. He also hates that some places feel like they need to offer him free meals like they’re being shaken down by the mafia. Glorified Yelpers demanding free…

Oh yeah. I mean FDR did a lot of great things. But He also did a lot of horrible things such as ignoring the atrocities by the Nazis, turning away Jewish refugees, and his greatest gem of interning Japanese Americans. People are complicated...

Absolutely not.

And lest we forget, FDR was very hesitant to get into WWII, and knew what was going on with Hitler and the Jews and decided it wasn’t our problem.

I’m suspicious of anyone who says they don’t have a racist bone in their body. We can certainly hope and try to not be racist but it is so much part of our culture that it takes a conscious effort to ensure you’re challenging yourself when you find racial stereotypes creeping into your thoughts. A lot of every day…

I have a similar assessment. Also, it highlights the very real ways the US government harbored Nazis after the war. Just see Wernher Von Braun among thousands of others from Operation Paperclip.

Yeah, I agree here. Even movies that do a good job sticking to reality generally try and focus the evil of the Holocaust onto one super evil man or small group of individuals. The true horror of the Holocaust to me is not that sadists exist, it’s the banality of it all. The Germans went about it with such…

A lot of movies (JoJo Rabbit got this quite a bit) get criticized for “humanizing” nazis, but that’s the thing: they were humans! The point is we might all be capable of great evil, and we have to do the work to be good people, every day. A movie I really love is The Reader with Kate Winslet (in fact, the actress who…

I felt like Marvelous Mrs. Maisel at least, the Jewish characters were believably Jewish. Like my parents are about as Jewish acting as her parents, and I believe if they were that age in the 50s, that’s what they might be like. The characters in Hunters are complete caricatures. Also, like in the first episode, the…

The issue is that it misses the whole fucking point. In Austria, one of the main parties (the super fashy one) was started by an SS officer after the war. In West Germany a shit ton of Nazis sat in the government as elected officials after the war. The Nazis we failed to hunt weren’t in some secret cabal. The ones who…

The chess scene isn’t worse than shoving people into a gas chamber, shooting children in front of their parents, doing experiments on people, etc. It isn’t any worse than what was portrayed in Sophie’s Choice, deciding which child should live and which should die.

This is the problem that I had with the show. Hunters was great, but when you treat all Nazis like psychotic super villains then you make it easier for Sally-Ann Anti-Semite to excuse their casual bigotry. “I’m not like those Nazis. I don’t want to do medical experiments on Jews; I just don’t want my daughter to date…

As a Jew I’m really not sure how I feel about this show. (I have watched the first episode and three quarters of the second).

Alas, it doesn’t count as a reunion if Sophia Bush isn’t there. And as she was married to other co-star Chad Michael Murray* for just five months (allegedly due to him cheating on her with regular shit-stirrer Paris Hilton), that’s a reunion less than likely to happen.