Wish Me Luck: Series One
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Actor: Julian GloverBrand: Acorn
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 388 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2010-03-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acorn Media
DVD Reviews of Wish Me Luck: Series One
DVD Review: A Womans' War - Life as spies and commanders in occupied countries.
Summary: 5 Stars
Wish Me Luck - It's British, so I bought the first series anticipating chintzy sets, average acting and barely credible storylines.
What a surprise when the entire series turned out (in almost every aspect) to have as much detail, quality and professionalism of production as anyone has a right to expect from a made for TV series. The quality in that respect is stellar. I bought the entire series after watching two episodes and have absolutely not been disappointed, so beware, because if you enjoy this period at all it is likely you will be spending money on the remaining episodes.
Wish Me Luck is one of those rare (for me) British made series or movies that don't come across as third rate (at best) in terms of acting, screenplay, sets or storyline. The language and dialogue are very easy to understand and although complex at times remain simple to follow.
This series of almost stand alone episodes takes the viewer from the inception of the British womens' spy service, and the resistance to its creation, through to (in later series) the end of the war, it depicts very clearly the struggles they faced, not only from their enemies but also from their friends overseas, who were often less than likely to accept a woman as a leader especially in time of war. It often takes the history of individual women from before joining or being recruited into the service through training, deployment, and eventual capture, death, or for the lucky ones, promotion and survival.
It's excellent at demonstrating the worries and concerns of those left at home, how a husband has to deal with a wife or mother putting herself in mortal danger, how he reacts when she chooses service to country over servitude at home and the fractures that are ever present between mothers and children.
Some of the most poignent parts are when these special individuals become betrayed, not in the line of duty, but by simple human meanness and small mindedness by supposed loved ones left in safety at home. It is truly entertaining on so very many levels.
The various episodes take the viewer expertly through the atrocities of the Third Reich, avoiding the most graphic representations, while leaving little to the imagination. One gets to experience almost firsthand the pressures of life as a female spy in occupied Europe, the ever present threat of capture, the friends posted missing or known killed, the panic and the joy, the love and sorrow are all sewn expertly into this vivid tapestry of life in WW2 Europe.
The sets, the costumes, the daily life episodes, all are woven into a rich background of espionage and intruge in the most human fashion imaginable.
I bought the first series, followed quickly by the set, and will watch it many times over the comming years, as I actually found nothing that looked obviously "fake" or "graphics generated", or alerted the viewer strongly that this was a low budget effort and detracted from the series' main efforts to pull the watcher thoroughly into the period.
Description of Wish Me Luck: Series One
Seen on public television
Civilians turn heroines in this compelling British WWII series
At the height of World War II, France is occupied and all of England is in peril. Col. James "Cad" Cadogan (Julian Glover, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) will use any means necessary to get the intelligence he needs--even sending civilians to work undercover behind enemy lines. Based on the real-life stories of women recruited by Britain?s Special Operations Executive, this suspenseful drama series follows wife and mother Liz Grainger (Kate Buffery, Trial & Retribution) and half-Jewish factory girl Matty Firman (Suzanna Hamilton, 1984) from training in England through the terror of their daily lives in Nazi-occupied France.
Filmed on location in Britain and France, this gripping wartime drama boasts strong female characters, tension-filled plots, and historical authenticity. Also starring Jeremy Northam (The Tudors), Jane Asher (A Voyage Round My Father), Michael J. Jackson (Doctors), and Warren Clarke (Dalziel & Pascoe) as German Col. Werner Krieger.
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