This series was pretty good but most of it boils down to one reason. A great job casting Bel Powley.
Overall the series pulls you in and by the time it is over you really don't realize it is overall fairly bland. It focuses in on Bel Powley's character who works for Mr. Frank and ends up hiding him and his family including the now tragic iconic Anne Frank during World War II and the occupation of Holland.
Most of it is rather bland overpromising and under delivering. Bel Powley's performance though, steals all the oxygen from the more pedestrianess of the series and makes you want to tune in,. She is a bright, lively, young woman and makes you care about her, the dilemmas she, her husband, and the Frank's face. You still root for them even though you know the outcome already which is sometimes a difficult thing to achieve.
My only big problem is that this series is really bland sometimes feeling superficial and doesn't do justices to highlighting just the difficulties of day to day life with the deprivations of the war beyond some difficulties in hiding jews.
Overall the series pulls you in and by the time it is over you really don't realize it is overall fairly bland. It focuses in on Bel Powley's character who works for Mr. Frank and ends up hiding him and his family including the now tragic iconic Anne Frank during World War II and the occupation of Holland.
Most of it is rather bland overpromising and under delivering. Bel Powley's performance though, steals all the oxygen from the more pedestrianess of the series and makes you want to tune in,. She is a bright, lively, young woman and makes you care about her, the dilemmas she, her husband, and the Frank's face. You still root for them even though you know the outcome already which is sometimes a difficult thing to achieve.
My only big problem is that this series is really bland sometimes feeling superficial and doesn't do justices to highlighting just the difficulties of day to day life with the deprivations of the war beyond some difficulties in hiding jews.