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Post by geometryman on Nov 11, 2019 19:52:41 GMT
No, I don't think it's got beyond Septrember 1940, i.e. 1 year into the nearly 6 years of WW2. In the finale there was a comment about the Luftwaffe attacking the RAF - sometime around September 1940 they were losing that one so they gave up on it and switched to bombing London and other cities instead - there hasn't been any talk of that as far as I noticed.
Edit - that was a reply to:
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Post by pearl06 on Nov 11, 2019 22:11:09 GMT
September 1940 was when I was evacuated with my sister to Banbury!
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Post by goodhelenstar on Nov 12, 2019 7:30:06 GMT
I didn't watch, having baled out after the first episode. But this quote caught my eye as it had a familiar ring. There was a series called The Village about which the writer said much the same, intending to work his way through the 20th century, and which was cancelled after two series. I wondered if it might have been Peter Bowker, but it was in fact Peter Moffat, another writer whose work I generally admire. It's such a pity when good writers have a vision, which to them is a good, creative vision, and it doesn't work out, possibly for production reasons that the viewer doesn't know anything about.
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Post by Miranda on Nov 12, 2019 12:07:33 GMT
The Village? Was that the really depressing mumbly one? I think I watched the first one and didn't bother with the rest. Couldn't hear a word anyone was saying.
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Post by vicky on Nov 12, 2019 13:08:17 GMT
That was my impression of The Village too Miranda. John Sim and Maxine Peake were in it I think. All I know Peter Bowker for are the series about the family in the Lake District with the little boy who is autistic. Morven Christie and Lee Ingleby played his parents. I thought that was very good.
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Post by Miranda on Nov 12, 2019 13:21:18 GMT
Oh I did like that.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2019 17:10:16 GMT
That was my impression of The Village too Miranda. John Sim and Maxine Peake were in it I think. All I know Peter Bowker for are the series about the family in the Lake District with the little boy who is autistic. Morven Christie and Lee Ingleby played his parents. I thought that was very good. The Village was written by Peter Moffat who had spoken of wanting to create 'a British Heimat'. Heimat is a series of films written and directed by Edgar Reitz about life in Germany from the 1840s to 2000 through the eyes of a family from the Hunsrück area of the Rhineland. The family's personal and domestic life is set against the backdrop of wider social and political events. The combined length of the story – broken into 32 episodes – is 59 hours and 32 minutes, making it one of the longest series of feature-length films in cinema history. |
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Post by marion on Nov 12, 2019 17:47:10 GMT
The Village? Was that the really depressing mumbly one? I think I watched the first one and didn't bother with the rest. Couldn't hear a word anyone was saying. I only lasted for the first one as well. God it was depressing! |
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Post by geometryman on Nov 12, 2019 19:26:48 GMT
The Village? Was that the really depressing mumbly one? I think I watched the first one and didn't bother with the rest. Couldn't hear a word anyone was saying. I only lasted for the first one as well. God it was depressing! Yes it was depressing - so much so, there was a public outcry I remember, and they had to lighten it up a bit for series 2.
I did watch both series but didn't think a lot of it. I wasn't surprised or particularly sorry it didn't have a third run.
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Post by beverley61 on Jul 3, 2023 11:59:06 GMT
The second series is due soon.
The same cast appear but not necessarily for the whole series as there are new stories. We have a professional soldier in the siege at Tobruk and a woman caught up in the Lebensborn programme. These two story lines have been revealed as teasers but the series starts off where it left off.
It was mothballed because of the pandemic and the location shooting. This was a multi-european TV production and they couldn't get everyone together until six months ago.
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Post by beverley61 on Jul 18, 2023 12:16:14 GMT
I am two episodes in to series 2 and it has picked up the pace quite a bit. Sections in Africa are good and also the section about the Lebensborn programme in Germany is harrowing. The bits in the prison in France are a little naff, as no resistance worker would have hovered that long that often with one particular prisoner, especially as they are being watched all the time. This bit could definitely have been better. The home section is also played very well with Kasia coping being in England and inactive and Lois wanting to get away and be active.
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Anymore to come?
