Hanna – Season 1 Review

Hanna

I never did see the original Hanna film. After watching the new Amazon series, though, I have a feeling this works better as a two-hour story versus an eight-hour one. TV is usually a great medium to really get to know the characters, but at the end of Hanna, I still didn’t know much about anyone. It doesn’t help that our main protagonist, Hanna, is a robotic blank slate. While that’s arguably the whole point of the show, such an alien-like, fish-out-of-water individual really only works if there are good supporting characters surrounding her. That’s why the few scenes with teenage Sophie are probably among the best and most interesting. Hanna is a terrible teenager, of course, but Sophie plays off of that really well.

Unfortunately, everyone else in the show is pretty bland. There’s potential for a profound dynamic between Hanna and her adoptive father, but the two of them keep getting split up and dillydally in their own adventures. Both characters are fairly unlikable, anyway. Hanna and her dad constantly lie and use people and get others killed. The only reason we have to root for them is that we’re told Marissa Wiegler is much, much worse. But Wiegler spends so much time alternating between being a threat and a non-threat that she’s really just a distraction more than anything. I’m sure they have big things in store for her in Season 2, though, but I shouldn’t have to sit through another eight hours to feel satisfied with a story that could have been told in two.

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Clark
I love gaming so much, I wrote a book about it.

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Clark

I love gaming so much, I wrote a book about it.