I am watching a really scary TV series about a modern Russian occupation.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

It's called "Occupied" and it's on Netflix. Max Boot just mentioned it in his op-ed, "Trump wants to Finlandize the United States," https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-is-pushing-the-atlantic-alliance-to-the-breaking-point/2018/06/30/c054f0dc-7c8e-11e8-80be-6d32e182a3bc_story.html?utm_term=.4bae6bc0a419. He says,

"The Post reports that Trump has ordered the Pentagon to study the removal of U.S. troops from Germany — a country that Trump views as an enemy because it sells cars that Americans love to buy. The U.S. troop presence in Germany has signaled since 1945 our commitment to protecting Europe from Russia. A pullout now would open the door to Finlandization. If you want to see what that could look like, watch the Norwegian TV series “Occupied.”

Here's another review:

Teasing out “the scary bits” of such a frightening scenario is what makes Occupied one of the most rivetingly realistic TV shows about international politics in recent memory. Aside from its opening plot device, there’s little about the show that’s unbelievable. The best aspects aren’t the occasional explosions and shoot-outs, but the human drama. Little by little, viewers come to see how a democratic society becomes morally corroded by the everyday compromises regular people are forced to make.

https://www.politico.eu/article/occupied-norwegian-tv-series-thats-enraged-the-kremlin-norway-russia-occupation/
So I started watching it; it's well-done and it's scaring me - not that Russia could occupy the US in exactly the same way (although it could take over the Baltic countries or others, which is what worries Max Boot - and part of the story is that the US has withdrawn from NATO), but the moral corrosion part hits home. Have a look.

[Ilsa]

1. Thank you for that. I'm watching The Americans on Amazon

and I'll watch Occupied next.

[TrishaJ]

10. Big "Americans" fan here.

(also a Falcons fan) .... My perspective on this series radically changed after the 2016 election. Kind of eerie, so to speak.

[roamer65]

2. ABC's 1987 mini-series "Amerika" is more prescient than ever.

I watched it on you tube the other nite when I saw the treason weasel senators were in Moscow.

[roamer65]

6. IMO...ABC should replay the series on national television.

[roamer65]

11. I cried during the scene when Kris Kristofferson kept repeating...

the pledge of allegiance. Then he said “America” over and over again.

[uponit7771]

13. +1

[Anon-C]

8. The parallels to that miniseries are uncanny!

[roamer65]

12. I agree...they are downright scary.

Especially with it being produced 30 years ago.

[madaboutharry]

3. I just finished watching season 2 of "Occupied"

last night. They leave you with a cliffhanger.

It is excellent. I am glad to have learned they are filming season 3.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Oh, no, we have to wait for another whole season to find out how it ends?

Arghh!

[madaboutharry]

7. But think how good it will be to get another season!

I didn’t want it to end, so I’m happy for another season.

[Habibi]

18. Will there be a season 3?

I got hooked on Occupied as well and looked for info about a 3rd season a couple of weeks ago. Didn't come up with anything.

[madaboutharry]

19. Here

https://www.cinemascandinavia.com/a-third-season-of-occupied-has-been-confirmed/

[Habibi]

20. Thank you! nt

[world wide wally]

5. I.just binge watched "The man in the High Tower"

If I had watched it a year or two ago,, i.woild have found it totally unrealistic at how compliant Americans were to their Nazi and Japanese ooccupiers. Now not so.much.

[suffragette]

9. "Occupied" is well worth watching. Though from a different perspective, "Babylon Berlin" also

hits on some troubling similarities to our time and is very well vonceived and done.

[Thomas Hurt]

14. The Pig is trying to make it easier for Putin to reconstitute the territory of the USSR...

so Putin can make a move on the baltic states.

[uponit7771]

15. K&R, "The US wont help, that's the reason they withdrew from NATO !!!" Watching first episode...

... its riveting.

[peggysue2]

16. It's a good series

I was glad Netflix brought it back for another season. Chilling, too, when you consider what's going on right now--how the 'free' world might fare after the United States is kicked and/or has kicked itself to the sidelines.

Not pretty!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. A good line from "Occupied" -

"Protest is speaking out against something. Resistance is stopping it from happening."

[uponit7771]

21. Just got through with the first two episodes, no one here but MAGA Nationalist would allow what is

... happening in the series (which is VERY binge worthy, carve out some hours).

The PM in the series is loved while America's president is loathed.

If the Russians wanted to do such in the US it would've been safer to do it under Obama.

The Russians want to drag America down like the USSR in the 90s which I think the older Russians in the secret services still blame America at the least for the economic turmoil.

[uponit7771]

22. Question to male PM of Norway: "... how long will you be taking maternity leave" Cause healthcare

... everywhere else is important ...sigh

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. Parental leave in Norway:

46 weeks of parental leave at 100 per cent of pay, or 56 weeks at 80 per cent of pay. Up to 14 weeks of this leave can be taken by the father. And after that you can send your child to a partially-subsidized barnehage (kindergarten) until the child is 6, when school is compulsory (and free). College tuition is also free.

Damn socialists.

[uponit7771]

24. +1