what a near-perfect--and prophetic--piece of work
Interested to see so many other people rating this series so highly. Every time an episode is on, if I watch 30 seconds, I'm done for the duration. Like a book you absolutely can't put down.
Gotta say, too, when you see all that stuff about British occupation, the show of military presence, "losses" that are actually Continental wins (I can just hear the British war apologists publishing articles about how "we've never actually lost a single battle")...kinda hard not to see the parallels to our current situation. You'd think if any country would understand the impossibility of even a superior army maintaining military control over an occupied country that doesn't want them there, it'd be us.
Anyway...this series really brings up a lot of memories of when I was a grade-school kid, learning about this country and absolutely falling in love with it--I mean just an intense, deep love that doesn't depend on symbology, but that comes out of the real actions of real people, for their liberalism and radicalism, their all-in commitment to anti-authoritarianism and anti-monarchism. I fell in love with it all over again, watching this series, and I wonder where the promise of that nation went, for us to be where we are now. I wonder if the filmmakers know they're having this effect on people.