This show is excellent. I have never been one to be into much about Anne Frank, though I am aware it is a tragic story but this show makes me care...a lot.
The show is a miniseries essentially and the last two episodes have just aired on Disney+ and it is just brilliant. This is a show about ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the face of very, very real consequences. These people are not perfect by any means, they make mistakes, they doubt themselves, they question their own decisions and then they take action and live with the risks, the consequences of these choices.
It just really paints what a horrible time it must have been to be alive, especially for Jews and there are moments where you feel like everything is going to be ok and then very quickly, it isn't. They also do a really good job of humanising the Germans too, they aren't all portrayed as monsters but they also aren't brushed with an untrue shade of light either.
This is a show of broken people during a broken time trying to be a little less broken and repair other breaks where possible. It really is a deep dive into what it means to do good things, even if it comes at a cost, a dive into what it means to be human and whether you can stay human in a world where evil is at its worst.
It isn't an action series, it is a slow burn but goodness me, it is worth the slow pace. This show is compelling and I just don't think enough people know about it or would choose to watch it without a recommendation. I give it a very strong recommendation indeed, excellent show by excellent writers performed by an excellent cast.
The show is a miniseries essentially and the last two episodes have just aired on Disney+ and it is just brilliant. This is a show about ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the face of very, very real consequences. These people are not perfect by any means, they make mistakes, they doubt themselves, they question their own decisions and then they take action and live with the risks, the consequences of these choices.
It just really paints what a horrible time it must have been to be alive, especially for Jews and there are moments where you feel like everything is going to be ok and then very quickly, it isn't. They also do a really good job of humanising the Germans too, they aren't all portrayed as monsters but they also aren't brushed with an untrue shade of light either.
This is a show of broken people during a broken time trying to be a little less broken and repair other breaks where possible. It really is a deep dive into what it means to do good things, even if it comes at a cost, a dive into what it means to be human and whether you can stay human in a world where evil is at its worst.
It isn't an action series, it is a slow burn but goodness me, it is worth the slow pace. This show is compelling and I just don't think enough people know about it or would choose to watch it without a recommendation. I give it a very strong recommendation indeed, excellent show by excellent writers performed by an excellent cast.