Travis is their enforcer.
The violence onHuntersonly gets more hostile.
These moments teeter towards disturbing at times, but the architects ofHuntersfound them necessary.
“The violence is an arc on the show,” series creator David Weil explains.
“In the beginning, it feels poppy-er, it feels more fun.
Slowly our characters begin to feel, ‘What?
It’s a constant balancing act, adds Nikki Toscano, an executive producer and co-showrunner opposite Weil.
“It’s also more powerful.
The show begins with a Jewish woman arriving at a backyard barbecue thrown by her husband’s new boss.
He fights through exhaustion, though not because of the cast’s wrap party that happened the prior night.
“The only way you’re gonna see it is if I don’t sleep.”
“It’s hard to put someone in a box,” Lerman, 28, says.
“[Jonah’s] definition of morality is clean cut: right and wrong, good and bad.
What we explore in the show is, what is right?
Do you have to be bad to preserve what you think is good in this world?
Does it take the extremist version of justice?
I don’t have an answer for it, but I like playing around with that moral dilemma.”
“That was such a strange and jarring thing to hear as a kid,” he recalls.
If we hunt these monsters, do we risk becoming them ourselves?
Weil wrote an 80-page “Bible” for networks, mapping out “where the show would go.”
TNT and HBO, he mentions, raised their hands but neither ended up making the series.
The new leadership came in and didn’t latch onto the material.
“I think he just didn’t understand it,” Weil says.
How do we give voice to…?'”
“The Nazis?”
It was so bizarre.
Weil didn’t mention which executives or networks specifically gave this feedback.
He says he couldn’t come up with an answer for them out of a stupor at the time.
“I said, ‘I just think we see the show differently… and the world differently.”
“It was the first thing she bought,” Weil says.
“She thought it was a bold and dangerous piece and she loved it.
He feels it happens naturally on its own.
“It informs the choices we make in terms of the message we’re trying to put out there.
What are we adding to it?”
Weil, still a comic book lover, is adding the superhero stories he didn’t often hear about.
Simon Wiesenthal, a real-life Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter, becomes a more fictionalized character on the show.
In the first episode, you may notice Jonah’s jacket is yellow.
It’s also the color of the daggers each of them wields.
Red, meanwhile, is routinely used to highlight Nazis.
“As a Jewish person, I felt like antisemitism was always around,” Weil says.
“It always hid behind closed doors and white picket fences and state rooms.
I think it’s just much more out in the open [now].
And, yes, sometimes that show involves blowtorching off a Nazi’s genitals.
They are Nazis, after all.
As the Hunters frequently realize, it’s possible for you to’t negotiate with Nazis.
