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It is very repetitive and low information, and as bad as it is, the host makes it even worse, in any aspect. I don't understand any production company in its sane mind and market scope to choose a host like this. So it is not informative nor entertaining, it is even hard to listen to the host, a total waste of the topic and the production budget.

I was thinking "what a good movie material" when I saw the documentary about this particular part of the WW2 history, and I was happy to find this series. The production is good, both casting and filming are unsatisfactory, especially given the facts that the true history itself and the natural environment for filming have much more to offer than the final product itself. The worst is that, it drags too long. Te history/story would make a great movie, or even a long-er movie, but definitely not a 6 hours series, it's slow and filled in with unnecessary scenes that are not even enticing nor enriching. All in all, a bit disappointed, feel as if a good movie material got spoiled.

I've always been an Austen fan since I first read Pride and Prejudice at age 9. Since then I've read Pride and Prejudice in two different languages and my favorite adaptation of it is the BBC mini series in 1995. I tried to avoid the "when death comes to Pemberley" as long as possible since first I didn't want to spoil my fondness of the original book, and second the characters on the screen shots just mortifies me. I finally watched it and although the production is good, but like another viewer has mentioned, the script is anachronistic, as if someone is trying to write a Victorian time period drama but struggling with modern and even Hollywood terms. But this is not the worst of it, to me, the worst is the casting. This is a version with finally a handsome enough Wickham, but other main characters are just good actors with great voice performance and way too disappointing and falling far short for such iconic roles. Even supporting characters are rather odd choices, I had to re-watch some of it to understand what their positions, roles and characters in it. I'm sure it's not the worst portrait for Elizabeth and Darcy (and even colonel Fitzwilliam and Georgiana), but they sort of ruined it.