![]() ![]() As the 40 young men take on their first mission, they struggle with the cramped and claustrophobic conditions of life underwater. Season two opens with a thrilling series of above-ground plot points, all poised to interlace: a French resistance operative working as a double agent in an SS-operated police department a grieving soldier desperate to find his abandoned daughter a too-trusting senator’s son and the U-boat engineer he scooped up out of the sea, schmoozing through the nightclubs of Harlem. During the Autumn of 1942, in occupied France, U-612 is now ready for its maiden voyage, preparing to head into the increasingly brutal warfare with its young crewmen, including the new captain, Klaus Hoffmann. ![]() ![]() How Das Boot achieves this is by taking a lot of the water out but keeping the claustrophobia in. Klaus Hoffmann, who feels pressure to live up to his. But with that smooth patina of Big Budget TV over the top of it, Das Boot becomes compelling to an audience wider than – and I’m using my own father as an example – “men who go to the library twice a week solely to take out non-fiction war books about U-boats and chain-smoke roll-ups while reading them in utter silence”. In the occupied French port of La Rochelle in the autumn of 1942, U-612 is preparing for its first voyage led by Capt. As the bubble moves down the glass, gradually rotate the boot 90 degrees in either direction so that by the time the bubble reaches the toe, the toe is pointing to the right or left. Start drinking from the beer boot with the toe pointed directly away from you. Obviously, an atmospheric, no-fun drama set in the simmering cauldron of a second world war submarine – where danger surrounds you, both from the murky waters above and from the complicated hierarchy of men, young and old and grizzled and green, who all have differing levels of dedication to the wartime cause – isn’t for everyone. The trick to avoiding a shamefully dampened shirt is to release the bubble slowly. ![]()
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