Left hanging

I just finished watching the 6 shows and realized that I would be left hanging, not satisfied with the ending of episode #6 which seemed that it was intended as a season ending, not a show ending episode. Alas.

In the time frame for the shows the islanders seem to be getting on pretty well, with enough food and few privations other than to their freedoms. Obviously, that was partially due to regular imports from France. With the Allied invasion, that would all change. It's a shame we won't ever see the vision of the writer continued, due to his death and show being cancelled rather than new writers hired. I regret not being able to see how the show might have handled the last year of the war and occupation when things really became difficult.

Islanders today probably didn't like being portrayed as collaborators during the occupation, but there was a lot of social and economic fraternizing during that time, whether modern memories of islanders and their descendants want to acknowledge the reality or not. People stuck on an island together … will find a way. Needless to say, this was all the more necessary since England had pretty much abandoned islanders, leaving them to their devices. Without the possibility of escape, aid or contact with England, I'm sure the islanders had to make the best of the bad situation, for their survival. As for the local women fraternizing with the enemy … there were few young local men left, the Germans were there without their own women … human nature will usually exert itself.