World on Fire

Really amazed at amount of critical reviewers who base their criticism of a drama on history. This is a fictional account of some personal experiences of WWII not a documentary. Using your criteria, then all drama must be reviewed in terms of history and condemned if not absolutely accurate. Also, amazed that some reviewers are concerned about the bad depiction of Nazis and the display of blatant homophobic remarks as well as using the typical PC attack. I do see homophobic remarks in many reviews of any movie/series that has major gay roles. Looks like lots of right-wing and possibly Nazi nuts reviewing this but I guess that is to be expected when WWII related presentations are involved. But even with all this negativity, it has a decent rating because this series is well presented and acted. Great dramatic presentation of personal experiences and the challenges and heartache they faced in a horrific crisis.

This is for people who want to know about confusion and pain, not the shoot them up pastiche of war that is typical. It's sibjective approach means it has nine of the grand narative, but that's exactly right for the humane film it is

Season 1 was something to watch when you felt like a WW2 drama that included a bit of everything, but it wasn't engrossing, and I even forgot to watch the end of the series.

Then season 2 arrived. Whatever happened in the years between I'm not sure, but the dialogue is just woeful, and the production seems like it was all done on the cheap - the desert scenes looked like they were made on a movie lot in the 50s, and I thought the gestarpo interrogation scenes were part of some comedy skit!

There were so many different story lines going on at the same time with no connection it just all felt very disjointed.

I'm not sure if it was the characters or the people playing them but they were pretty annoying a lot of the time. The only part worth watching was with Lesley Manville - and now Mark Bonnar has appeared I'm hoping it might get better.

1/10.... reallly? Poor acting... really?

You are on this forum, as am I, for ONE reason - to convey the cinematic qualities of what we have before us. This is NOT a historical debate forum. I'm glad we got that out of the way....

World on Fire delivers. It doesn't deliver historical accuracy - but it delivers "the sense of the moment" and it does so pretty damn well.

This is a half full glas and it's contents are pretty tasty. Any review below 6/10 cannot be taken seriously.

Enjoy.

Nice to see the polish side of the story and how horrifying it all was. Glad the bbc used well known polish actors rather than British actors with accents. Lends an authenticity to proceedings. Well acted throughout and great to see heavyweights like Helen hunt and Sean bean and Lesley Manville in tv