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I wanted to like this show based on the premise but it just fell flat for me. Characters weren't interesting, there was too much exposition and not enough building the progress of the story - characters did things that made no sense with no explanation. I was also thrown off and out of the story at the beginning by the completely unnecessary and unexplained bit about mispronouncing the main character's name, Myfanwy, as "Miffany." In reponse to some other comments, I live in the USA, I know people named Myfanwy, I've always loved that name and I have *never* heard anyone say it "Miffany," it's mu-VAN-wee. "Miffany" added nothing to the story, just sounded stupid and if you know the actual pronunicaition, is just a pointless waste of a good name. I have not read the book series, by Australian author Daniel O'Malley, so I can't comment on how it compares to that.

I've been a Marvel comics reader and fan for 45 years and this is up there as one of my favorite Marvel movies, with the first three Spiderman and Guardians of the Galaxy. Brie Larson was good as the main character, I saw a couple reviews unfavorably comparing her performance to Gail Gadot as Wonder Woman but I think Larson was fine and her character was definitely better. The female characters and their interrelationships were well presented, substantial and believable. It suffered from the shallow, implausible dialog that is fine in comics but I think has always cursed almost every Marvel movie, and ruined the Avengers for me. These characters were not as shallow as the Avengers. It was fun, it rolls along and there wasn't much that knocked my attention out of the enjoyment of the film. Younger Nick Fury was great and of course, who wouldn't love that cat?

I have to disagree respectfully with the other two reviews on this documentary series, I found it very good and enjoyed it.

This series presents the Nazi high command as people in a way that I had never seen in any previous documentary or book. The writers made good and frequent use of many primary source documents - diaries, letters, court transcripts, memos and other materials - so I would in no way class this as "propaganda." I think this series is an admirable work that probably represents many hours of research and puts together information I had never seen presented like this.

Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Goering, Speer and others were not inhuman monsters who just sprang up out of nothing, they were people who behaved monstrously, and neither were they supermen nor military geniuses. This documentary gives a detailed picture of who they were as individuals through how they interacted with each other, and how these monstrous, flawed humans destroyed themselves and their own country.