It’s that it’s Hoffman, who was set adrift in a lifeboat after the mutiny mid-season and hasn’t been seen since. So when a mysterious visitor turns up at his office, the surprise isn’t that it’s a German – after all, they’re secretly helping their war effort.
It was a win-win for the Germans: they got back an important U-Boat captain, and with Greenwood Jr returned, his father would continue to covertly buy Nazi war bonds to help finance the war effort. Cutting from France to New York, we’re reintroduced to American Samuel Greenwood Jr (Vincent Kartheiser), the other captive swapped in the mid-season prisoner exchange. They now have a new mission: to intercept fellow submarine U-822, which is currently on a mission to drop off spies in the US and is suspected of planning to defect.īut the biggest development in the second season came right at the end of the first. Things aren’t much better at sea in season two, with the U-612 now commanded by Ulrich Wrangel (Stefan Konarske) the exchanged prisoner who helped drive the crew’s mutiny. After her betrayal of Forster at the end of last season, things are only going to get more difficult for her.
A surprisingly large number of characters won’t be back for season two, with Strasser now on her own with her efforts to secretly help those suffering under the Nazi occupation. Season one wasn’t afraid to pull out all the stops in its final episode. This war isn’t a mighty clash between two unified sides, but a struggle where every person has to figure out their own duty for themselves. Out at sea, clichés are turned on their head as the by-the-book officer turns out to be a calm and level-headed leader – who still gets deposed by his men in a mutiny. We’re accustomed to think of the French Resistance as about as pure as good guys get, but Carla is a Spanish Civil War veteran and communist who’s happy to kill innocents if it’ll get the job done, while Forster is charming and urbane while also being a committed anti-Semite. There’s plenty of action, especially out at sea (being trapped underwater while the enemy is dropping explosives on you can’t help but be tense), but a lot of the drama comes from the friction between characters who are supposedly on the same side.
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One thing the series does carry over from the film is a refusal to look at the war in simple black and white terms.
On the other, local gestapo chief, Hagen Forster (Tom Wlaschiha), is also clearly interested in her – and while his interest might initially be romantic, having a gestapo officer obsessed with you isn’t exactly ideal when the local Resistance leader is sharing your bed. On one hand Carla Munroe (Lizzy Caplan), leader of the local chapter of the French Resistance, wants her on board for her usefulness to the cause… and she also becomes Simone’s lover. Much of the first series sees her torn between two sides. She starts out as both naïve and something of a true believer (in the German side more than the Nazi party), but when she gets dragged into her brother’s black market morphine dealing she rapidly realises things are a lot more complicated than she first thought. There the focus is on Simone Strasser (Vicky Krieps) sister of the U-612’s radio operator Frank (Leonard Scheicher) and translator for the German navy. The major difference between the series and the film is that roughly half the series takes place on dry land in the occupied French harbour town of La Rochelle.
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