This Land Is Mine

I'm pretty lucky to be captioning this for broadcast on Canadian television. I probably would never have tuned into it otherwise.

But the further I get into it, the more engrossed I am in this fascinating story about post-war Singapore.

For those who are as ignorant as I am, Singapore was a British colony soon occupied by Japan during the WWII. There were legendary clashes, all kinds of oppressive violence.

The Chinese, Malays, Tamil, and British all made Singapore an amazing place, but this is fraught with post-occupation anger against the Japanese, and two of our key protagonists are lawyers employed by a law firm tasked with giving a defense to a Japanese officer on trial for war crimes, with death hanging in the balance as the consequence of losing the trial.

The series begins with the assigning of the law case, and it develops around that and so much more.

The cast is not of all British actors but instead people who are actually from the places they're supposed to be from - China, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and the UK.

It's a heady swirl of cultures and clashes and colonialism and war crimes, plus the fight between the modern way of a younger generation against the traditions of old.

It's something different from your usual fare on war history re WWII, and there's a lot to like here. I highly recommend it.