johnmcng

I enjoyed this show from the very beginning. It had characters that you could build empathy with and feel the pain of a great many of the other characters. And I thought there was some first rate acting in this series. I enjoyed Sean Bean as the World War I shell shocked pacifist father. The relationship with his daughter Julia Brown, his troubled son, Ewan Mitchell is interesting. Julia Brown does get to show off her impressive singing talents. The relationship that Bean develops with two characters melted my heart; those being Leslie Manville a well to do widow and the Polish war orphan Jan Tomaszeski. We get to see Jan sprout like a weed between the two series. Johan Hauer-King was believable as the love interest of Julia Brown AND Zofia Wichalacz. The show had so much potential for at least another two seasons. I wish I could get the BBC to change their minds. The ending leaves us hanging over what is going to happen with Zofia being parachuted back into occupied Poland.