History Series / Hunters

Hunters only ran for two seasons.

* FourthWallPsych: At the start of the season two premier, [[spoiler:Meyer/Zuchs]], who was killed at the end of the previous season, is shown to be alive and, while looking directly into the camera, says "My friends, you look like you've seen a ghost!" It's then revealed that he's talking to some friends of his two years before his death in the previous season.

* GroinAttack : [[spoiler:When Harriet and Lonny capture and extract information from the plant manager of Schidler Corp.]]

** After years of escaping justice, [[spoiler:Hitler is captured alive by Jonah and delivered to the authorities, culminating in a televised trial where he's eventually found guilty and imprisoned for life, with his final scene hammering home how alone he is in prison where he's just another inmate who no-one pays any mind to.]].

* PlotIrrelevantVillain: You can honestly cut out all of Biff's scenes and nothing would change. His plot has little to absolutely nothing to do with the main story and he never even encounters Hunters. Heck, the Hunters aren’t even aware of him.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The man believed to be Meyer is actually The Wolf, a Nazi surgeon who killed the real Meyer Offerman and stole his identity.]]

* KarmaHoudini: The various Nazis who escaped to America after the war, [[spoiler:or in some cases, were permitted in by the American government. Hitler and Eva Braun are revealed to be this as well in the first season finale. Biff escapes Morris' custody and flees the country. However....*see Karma Houdini Warranty below*]]

* MoodWhiplash: A very serious problem for the show. For one side, it behaves like a black humoured Naziexplotation show, with ridiculously over the top antics (like the human chessboard). On the other side, you have dramatic subplots ala Schindler's list, like Murray and Mindy's story, Ruth, some of the backstoried, etc. Both are so off tone with the other, that instead of complementing, they confuse each other and the viewer. Not helping is the show's attempts to bring up serious moral dilemmas when every single Nazi is a one dimensional monster with practically no human or redeemable qualities (and jumping from real life atrocities to things like a human chessboard or a plot to kill 12 million Americans) which could make a more realistic and interesting show, given the protagonists are all morally grey antiheroes.

* GovernmentConspiracy: The Nazis trying to rebuild the Third Reich in America. It has many ties to the US government.

* NoOSHACompliance: Whoever built the corn syrup-poisoning plant had the bright idea of building an emergency bunker right underneath the floor with the vats and machinery. And not only that, but have the bunker's air vents being simple slots that directly connect the ceiling with the chemical floor above. The result: scorching corn syrup leaking directly onto the bunker's occupants.

* AwfulWeddedLife: Turns out [[spoiler:Eva Braun and Hitler suffer from this, with Eva demanding a bigger role in the Fourth Reich movement now that Hitler is old and resenting Hitler for dismissing her on account of Eva being noone until she married him and the failure of ther plot in Season 1. Her resentment leads her to taking on Travis Leich as a lover.]]

* AwfulWeddedLife: Turns out [[spoiler:Eva Braun and Hitler suffer from this, with Eva demanding a bigger role in the Fourth Reich movement now that Hitler is old and Hitler dismissing her on account of being noone until she married him and the failure of ther plot in Season 1.]]

* AlternateHistory: Mostly of TheGreatestStoryNeverTold variety, but it veers more and more into this, culminating in [[spoiler:the televised trial of Adolf Hitler in 1979.]]

* WesternTerrorists: Without a country to rule, this is what the Nazis have become, plotting a bloody comeback through covert acts of violence.

* BigBad: The Colonel, [[spoiler:a.k.a. Eva Braun]].
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The TV series, on several occasions, uses {{Anvilicious}} advertisements and [=PSAs=] to ram home truths about anti-Semitism, Nazis, and the US Government's collaboration with same as part of Operation Paperclip. It's clear that these spots are aimed directly at the audience of "Hunters".

* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: After a scene depicting government officials debating whether or not to bring Nazi scientists to the States, there is a subtitle stating [[TruthInTelevision "yes, this actually happened".]]

* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: Jonah calls his grandmother “safta,” apparently from the Hebrew ''savta'' meaning grandma; however, Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe didn’t use that word; they used the Yiddish ''bubbe''.
* BigBad: The Colonel, [[spoiler: a.k.a. Eva Braun]].

** Meyer not only survived the horrors of the camps, but he was singled out for torment by The Wolf (due to Meyer's love for Ruth), including physical torture and [[spoiler: being forced to kill eleven of his fellow prisoners]]. It is said by Ruth that this act "killed Meyer's soul", and it is [[spoiler: apparently]] the cause of his and Ruth's 30-year estrangement. [[spoiler: The "real" Meyer, that is.]]
** Murray and Mindy, in addition to their imprisonment and separation, were forced to watch as [[spoiler: their young son was killed by an SS officer.]]

* DownerEnding: Season 1 ends on a really downer note. Sure, The Hunters manage to destroy the Nazi factory poisoning corn syrup but almost the major villains escape scot free. [[spoiler: Biff escapes from Morris’ custody and flees the country while The Colonel survives her near fatal crash and is living in South America with an alive & well Hitler. Travis is arrested and in prison but is actually enjoying his time behind bars since he has won the respect of his fellow prisoners.]] The Hunters aren’t in good shape either. [[spoiler: Jonah kills “Meyer” after discovering he was The Wolf the whole time, Joe is kidnapped and taken to South America while Mindy was PutOnABus.]] The only positive takeaway is the fact Jonah will step up as the new leader.

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: The Hunters uproot a widespread Nazi conspiracy and [[spoiler: narrowly avert a bioterror attack that would have killed millions]], but the world at large never learns about it.
* GroinAttack : [[spoiler: When Harriet and Lonny capture and extract information from the plant manager of Schidler Corp.]]

* KarmaHoudini: The various Nazis who escaped to America after the war, [[spoiler: or in some cases, were permitted in by the American government. Hitler and Eva Braun are revealed to be this as well in the first season finale. Biff escapes Morris' custody and flees the country. However....*see Karma Houdini Warranty below*]]
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Delivering vengeance to the aforementioned Nazis is the general mission of the Hunters and the general premise of the show. [[spoiler: Biff is not immune from this.]]

** Murray and Mindy lost [[spoiler: Aaron, their eldest son, when he was shot by an SS officer.]]

* PlotIrrelevantVillain: You can honestly cut out all of Biff’s scenes and nothing would change. His plot has little to absolutely nothing to do with the main story and he never even encounters Hunters. Heck, the Hunters aren’t even aware of him.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The man believed to be Meyer is actually The Wolf, a Nazi surgeon who killed the real Meyer Offerman and stole his identity.]]

* ShooOutTheClowns: Narrowly averted in the penultimate episode, when [[spoiler: Travis stabs Lonny. Though he is badly injured, he is not killed.]]
* SpotTheImposter: After [[spoiler: Meyer kills the Wolf, Jonah realizes he's not reciting the prayer he had promised Ruth he would say when he got his revenge. This leads Jonah to realize ''Meyer'' is the Wolf]].
* StrongFamilyResemblance: A DoubleSubverted example. Jonah is said to physically resemble [[spoiler: Meyer, his grandfather. While this is initially a SubvertedTrope, since the "Meyer" living in the present day is an impostor, flashbacks featuring the real Meyer show that this is more or less true (see SeparatedAtBirthCasting in the trivia tab)]].

* WhamShot: The reveal of [[spoiler: an aged Hitler, still alive and living with Eva Braun [[ArgentinaIsNaziLand in South America]]]] in the first season finale.

It was renewed for a second season.

* KarmaHoudini: The various Nazis who escaped to America after the war, [[spoiler: or in some cases, were permitted in by the American government. Hitler and Eva Braun are revealed to be this as well in the first season finale. Biff escapes Morris' custody and flees the country.]]
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Delivering vengeance to the aforementioned Nazis is the general mission of the Hunters and the general premise of the show.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It hasn't been clearly established whether certain characters are merely imagining having conversations with their dead loves ones, if they're having legitimate hallucinations of said loved ones, or if they're being visited by spirits/ghosts/otherworldly entities.

** Joe served three tours in Vietnam and as such, deals with a great deal of trauma and PTSD. In addition to that, due to his age and ethnicity, it is more than likely that he was imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp during the war.
** Harriet was a Jewish child sent to England on the Kindertransport and subsequently raised in a Catholic orphanage, where she was forced to assimilate and punished if she did not use her assigned Christian name.