A tale of two female Army medics. Molly Dawes lives with her father, mother and multitude of siblings in a working class area of London. At a dead end, she decides to join the Army. In Season 2 we meet Georgie Lane, an experienced medic who has just been posted to Kenya.
Our Girl started promisingly enough: the story of a working class teen who joins the Army to escape her father, boyfriend, job and everything her neighbourhood represents. The training aspect was interesting, as was the initial Afghanistan plot.
However, already the cracks were beginning to show: the story was not as gritty as you'd want and the military aspects were often implausible. Quite a lot of contrivances and predictable plot developments.
This was still reasonably entertaining though. What really let the series down was the love triangle that turned a war drama into a soap opera. It further undermined the plausibility of the military aspect.
Overall, S1 was okay but nothing more.
Season 2 initially didn't seem much better. I liked the change of main character, for many reasons, but the story still seemed bogged down in empty melodrama. Things got better over the next two episodes with some decent action scenes and tension, though the military aspect is still implausible (e.g. Fighter planes bomb terrorist hideout, nobody goes into the rubble to check that the target is dead - they just assume he is and go home).
Then it's back to the soap opera before a decent action-filled final episode.
Overall I liked S2 slightly more than the first but, as with S1, there's a lot of potential wasted.
Season ratings: S1 6/10, S2 6.5/10.
