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I quite enjoyed the first series, but this is just silly. OK, you are warned at the start of each episode that its "NOT a history lesson". But there's "not history", then there's "eye-rollingly ridiculous".
The first thing we see is leading looney Paddy having a tantrum because they won't send him home from Cairo for his Dad's funeral. Seriously?? 30,000 people died in the Blitz alone. If every serving soldier got to go home for every family funeral, they'd have to divert every troop ship and plane just to taxi them to and fro.
The sole female character is a cliched femme fatale French spy who is ludicrously over-dressed at all times (because she FRENCH, you see) and maintains a perfect manicure even in a war zone. She is the lover of SAS founder David, now banged up in an Italian prisoner of war camp. The plot descends into complete nonsense when she smuggles herself into the camp (all the way from London) disguised as a nun, to have sex with him "on the orders of General de Gaulle"! (I'm not kidding). Luckily the Italian guards are too dumb to spot the bright red nails and half a ton of make up!
I'm a big fan of Eric Newby, the wonderful travel writer. He actually was an officer in the SBS, and really took part in a daring raid in Italy and was taken prisoner. Surprise, surprise, they did not sleep in private cells or have visits from nuns (let alone private visits where they conveniently closed the door on them for half an hour!)
I can forgive silly, but what I didn't expect was that its actually quite boring, when Paddy constantly goes off into these long, long, over-written speeches. It seems like the writer is aspiring to write Shakespearean soliloquies, and they take up half the screen time.
That's just the first two episodes. Not sure I will bother with the rest.
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