Enemy at the Door

[dbskyler]

I just binge-watched the first series of "Enemy at the Door," which is partly because I found it on Youtube, and also thisbluespirit's fault for talking about that show and making me curious to try it.

It's about the occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII, and the overall anxiety and greyness about everything is perfectly hitting my mental state right now. Although I should probably be seeking out more uplifting fare as I'm also struggling a lot with depression. On the other hand, I do get the occasional laugh from random guest British actors playing Nazi officers with incredibly upper-crust British accents. It's probably not as jarring to a British audience, but to me, it sounds about as out-of-place as if David Tennant dropped in to play a Nazi with a broad Scottish accent just for kicks.

Comments

[dbskyler]

I did find out that the show ends with the islands still occupied. Wasn't sure if that was deliberate or not. Is there a cliffhanger at the end?

[thisbluespirit]

Not a cliffhanger as such, no; not like S1 anyway. But it is a shame, as they'd been building up some really interesting character arcs in a quiet way & I'd love to see how it would have progressed with everybody, especially as things got so much worse. (As far as I can tell, it seems to have been the expensive location filming on Jersey that caused them to cancel it.)