TROUBLED waters

Vincent Kartheiser on his return to the wartime submarine thriller – with an American twist…

- NICK CANNON, IAN MACEWAN

NEW DRAMA

Das Boot
Tue, Sky Atlantic HD, 9pm & 10.10pm

The first series of wartime submarine thriller Das Boot saw a mutiny aboard the German U-boat captained by Commander Klaus Hoffmann (Rick Okon), who was cast adrift in the Atlantic Ocean where it was assumed he’d died.

Yet in the last scene, viewers were stunned to see that Hoffmann had been rescued and was in New York, meeting his former American prisoner and wealthy businessman Samuel Greenwood, played by Mad Men’s Vincent Kartheiser.

This week, the second season of Das Boot starts at Christmas 1942 and follows Hoffmann and Greenwood’s story in America, where Greenwood and his politician father, played by British star Kevin McNally, are helping to hide Hoffmann by giving him the identity of a neutral Swiss visitor.