Creators:
Peter BowkerScreenplay:
Peter BowkerComposer:
Dan JonesCast:
Helen Hunt, Jonah Hauer-King, Julia Brown, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Arthur Darvill, Parker Sawyers, Brian J. Smith, Radoslaw Kaim, Tomasz Kot, Lesley Manville (more)Seasons(2) / Episodes(13)
Plots(1)
British television drama set during WWII which centres on the lives of people from all backgrounds as they attempt to cope with the horrifying and turbulent events of the war. At the forefront is Harry (Jonah Hauer-King), a translator who falls for a young Polish woman despite having a girlfriend back in Britain, Lois (Julia Brown), who is facing struggles of her own. (ITV Studios Home Entertainment)
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I was completely misled by the title and genre of the show. I was expecting an entertaining war series. Instead, I got a kind of soap opera-like romance, with something remotely reminiscent of war going on in the background. There's not a hint of showing Nazi atrocities (the occasional execution, beard trimming, etc. doesn’t even come close). The bombing of Warsaw, which turned the city into ruins, is presented in the series in the form of one bomber flying over the city and three explosions. Either the creators didn't know what they were doing, or they didn't know how to do it, or the series was grossly underfunded. I bet it was a combination of all of the above. The only attempts to build an atmosphere I noticed were the visits to Berlin. Very weak, but I will watch the next season to learn something new about the war again.
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World on Fire had me hopeful, especially with the promise of war scenes, but I was left disappointed. It’s always a bit disheartening to see familiar Czech settings paired with such average filmmaking. Even if the Czech backdrop is just a small part of the story, you’d hope the quality would be a notch higher. The war scenes, while the most interesting aspect of the seven-hour runtime, are few and far between. As others have mentioned, the show tries to tackle a similar theme to Generation War but ends up feeling more like a run-of-the-mill TV filler, bogged down by unnecessary and unengaging relationship drama.
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