(May Contain Spoilers)
Riveting, tense, and gripping! Hanna has a unique mixture of high action and teenage naivety. Based on the 2011 film of the same name, Amazon Prime have adapted this into an eight-part series. I thoroughly enjoyed the season as it has mixtures of high and low and when the film came out, I didn’t feel as fascinated so wasn’t sure whether to watch the series or not, however was glad that I did.
The series begins with Erik (Joel Kinnaman) breaking into a military facility and stealing a baby, we later find out that this baby is Hanna (Esme Creed-Miles). After Erik reunites Hanna with her mother, Johanna (Joanna Kulig), but they are then chased by Marissa (Mireille Enos), a CIA operative, to retrieve the stolen baby. Erik and Johanna try to escape, however the car crashes and Johanna died, and Erik runs into the forest with Hanna, 15 years later they are still hiding.
Hanna is rigorously trained by Erik, who is an ex-army operative, however being kept in the forest Hanna dreams of more. It follows that Hanna meets Benoit (Giles Norris-Tari), a polish boy, and they break into a satellite to watch the stars until guards come along and catch them, although Hanna runs off. Now Erik and Hanna are back on the run and are split up. Later they manage to meet again in Berlin, where Erik and some ex-army friends plot to kill Marissa who is now back chasing them all these years later. Some great action sequences and some jaw dropping moments, I love when you are kept on the edge or your set and think you know what is going to happen but than are surprised!
Hanna finds out Erik is not her biological father and she runs away to England to squat at her friends Sophie (Rhianne Barreto), who she meet whilst escaping a military base in morocco. These episodes followed the more coming-of-age storyline, where Hanna learnt girl code and had boy trouble. Meanwhile Erik was caught and shot by the CIA and tortured in a facility, where he finds out that there are more experiments like Hanna despite being told by Marissa that the projects were closed down. Erik escapes, but Marissa has caught up with Hanna and offers her a deal to be handed over to the CIA and Sophie’s family will not be harmed.
Marissa takes Hanna to a hotel, where she begins to show that she has a heart and warms to Hanna despite trying to kill her throughout the whole series. Erik catches up to Marissa and Hanna and they escape once again. Erik reveals to Hanna that she is not alone, and the final episode follows them both travel to the military base in Romania, called Utrax, to help break the girls/trainees out. When they get there, however, the trainees are brainwashed and obedient, apart from Trainee 249 or Clara (Yasmin Monet Prince) who starts to become self-aware and escapes with Hanna and Erik. The saddest moment of the whole series was Erik’s death, which was right at the end so there HAS TO BE another series!
Esme Creed-Miles announced on April 11th 2019 that there will be a series 2! Watch the clip >>HERE<<. I am so excited and was hoping it would have been released by now being April 2020! During this series I was on the edge of my seat with the action sequences and loved guessing what would happen next, just to be completely thrown off, but in a good way. I felt that episode 5 was very out of place focusing on the coming-of-age segment and had no action sequences, unlike the rest of the series that always had some moments of action. I really enjoyed the unique mix of coming-of-age and action/thriller. Captivating, endearing, and exhilarating!
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