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"RonSchoonwater gives "SAS: Rogue Heroes - Season 1" a 8."
Written by RonSchoonwater on 15 January 2023.
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SAS: Rogue Heroes - Season 1
SAS: Rogue Heroes is based on facts, but delivered with a very big wink.
The series is billed with the creators of Peaky Blinders. As a result of that, the expectations are immediately sky-high. Steven Knight is the mastermind behind SAS: Rogue Heroes. This results in a flashy series with striking music, because just like in Peaky Blinders, the music fits perfectly with the atmosphere, but not with the zeitgeist. This time it is mainly (hard) rock songs from bands such as AC/DC, Saxon, and Motörhead. Bands that originated somewhat later than the Second World War.
Rommel is very successful in Africa with his German Afrika Korps and the Italian armed forces. The British take blow after blow. To stop that trend, Jock Lewes (Alfie Allen, Game of Thrones) and Scotsman David Stirling (Connor Swindells, Sex Education) come up with a way to stop that trend. Small motorized units that attack supply routes and other important military targets, such as airfields, far behind enemy lines. After a failed action in which many soldiers lost their lives, partly due to the collaboration with the Lost Range Desert Group (a British reconnaissance unit), a new unit emerges that successfully carries out missions.
The first season actually sticks to the historiography pretty well. Stirling indeed manages to enter the General Staff unannounced. He does it just a little differently than in the series, but then it is only a detail that has been adjusted. The unit indeed scours the New Zealand troops for more and better equipment. The first steps are unprecedentedly difficult and almost disastrous for the still-to-be-created unit. After that comes the success and that too is closely monitored by the creators of the series. That image is reinforced by regularly showing original black-and-white images of the SAS. Yet the series is also clearly dramatized.
It is striking that Stirling is seen as someone who likes discipline, while the SAS in the series is an unhinged but very effective gang. The most famous exponent of this is the unhinged Irishman Paddy Maine (Jack O'Connell, The North Water) in the series. Although Paddy is indeed taken out of prison to become part of SAS, it is not written anywhere that he was really so uncontrollably aggressive. I have not been able to find out whether French people actually joined the SAS.
SAS: Rogue Heroes brings an extraordinary story from World War II to life. Chauvinism is no stranger to the British in its elaboration. On the other hand, it must be said that the SAS actually managed to carry out very successful actions without suffering many losses. It's basically like it's announced at the beginning of each episode. It is precisely the most bizarre situations that are based on truth. The other part is fiction, but well made up and still relatively close to the truth.
A very interesting series for fans of the Second World War and for fans of action. The second season has already been announced. Good, because there is still plenty to tell about this unit, which was still unusual at the time.
Follow SAS: Rogue HeroesThe series is billed with the creators of Peaky Blinders. As a result of that, the expectations are immediately sky-high. Steven Knight is the mastermind behind SAS: Rogue Heroes. This results in a flashy series with striking music, because just like in Peaky Blinders, the music fits perfectly with the atmosphere, but not with the zeitgeist. This time it is mainly (hard) rock songs from bands such as AC/DC, Saxon, and Motörhead. Bands that originated somewhat later than the Second World War.
SAS: Rogue Heroes is a series about a British unit, the Special Air Service. During the Second World War, they use guerrilla techniques to hit their opponent. The series is about the origins of the unit and the first actions the unit does in 1941 in North Africa.SAS: Rogue Heroes brings an extraordinary story from World War II to life.
Rommel is very successful in Africa with his German Afrika Korps and the Italian armed forces. The British take blow after blow. To stop that trend, Jock Lewes (Alfie Allen, Game of Thrones) and Scotsman David Stirling (Connor Swindells, Sex Education) come up with a way to stop that trend. Small motorized units that attack supply routes and other important military targets, such as airfields, far behind enemy lines. After a failed action in which many soldiers lost their lives, partly due to the collaboration with the Lost Range Desert Group (a British reconnaissance unit), a new unit emerges that successfully carries out missions.
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The first season actually sticks to the historiography pretty well. Stirling indeed manages to enter the General Staff unannounced. He does it just a little differently than in the series, but then it is only a detail that has been adjusted. The unit indeed scours the New Zealand troops for more and better equipment. The first steps are unprecedentedly difficult and almost disastrous for the still-to-be-created unit. After that comes the success and that too is closely monitored by the creators of the series. That image is reinforced by regularly showing original black-and-white images of the SAS. Yet the series is also clearly dramatized.
That part is represented by the Secret Service. Not only from the British, but also from the French. The French secret service is represented by the French Algerian Eve Mansour (Sofia Boutella, Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities). Eve, of course, gets into a relationship with Stirling. This part of the story is probably fictional. The idea of making the unit yet to be set up larger than it actually is in order to mislead the enemy is again based on truth. Just like Jock Lewes developing a handheld bomb for their actions.The first season actually sticks to the historiography pretty well.
It is striking that Stirling is seen as someone who likes discipline, while the SAS in the series is an unhinged but very effective gang. The most famous exponent of this is the unhinged Irishman Paddy Maine (Jack O'Connell, The North Water) in the series. Although Paddy is indeed taken out of prison to become part of SAS, it is not written anywhere that he was really so uncontrollably aggressive. I have not been able to find out whether French people actually joined the SAS.
© BBC One
SAS: Rogue Heroes brings an extraordinary story from World War II to life. Chauvinism is no stranger to the British in its elaboration. On the other hand, it must be said that the SAS actually managed to carry out very successful actions without suffering many losses. It's basically like it's announced at the beginning of each episode. It is precisely the most bizarre situations that are based on truth. The other part is fiction, but well made up and still relatively close to the truth.
A very interesting series for fans of the Second World War and for fans of action. The second season has already been announced. Good, because there is still plenty to tell about this unit, which was still unusual at the time.
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