

The Amazon Prime show Hunters, which follows a group of Nazi hunters in the 1970s, has gotten mixed reviews from critics, who’ve found it tonally confusing and jarring. It also got a very damning review from the Auschwitz Memorial, which says the show’s depictions of immense brutality are so exaggerated and historically inaccurate, they constitute “dangerous foolishness.”
Depicting the Holocaust in film or on television is generally tricky, often because it’s hard to convey the full brunt of the horror on screen. There was a lot of debate over whether or not the satirical film Jojo Rabbit treated the Holocaust too lightly. Roberto Benigni’s 1999 film Life Is Beautiful was widely criticized for using it as a vehicle for bittersweet comedy. Even Schindler’s List, the gold standard, was dismissed by some critics as being “too sentimental” about the Holocaust, if that’s a thing. As Variety reports, the Auschwitz Memorial thinks Hunters actually overdoes it, which ends up being torture porn.