World on fire

checjb · 27 Oct 2019 at 22:13

I'm really enjoying this show. Tonight's episode did a better job of showing Dunkirk than Nolan's mega-budget movie.

Combat Fighter · 29 Oct 2019 at 19:03

I’m also enjoying this show. Better than I thought it would be. Not sure what’s happened to Helen Hunts face though, it’s like she’s wearing a mask. She’s changed a lot from Twister!

kinetic747 · 29 Oct 2019 at 19:33

Combat Fighter said:
I’m also enjoying this show. Better than I thought it would be. Not sure what’s happened to Helen Hunts face though, it’s like she’s wearing a mask. She’s changed a lot from Twister!

She looks like she's been exhumed. :eek:

Deleted User 234324 · 29 Oct 2019 at 20:15

Combat Fighter said:
I’m also enjoying this show. Better than I thought it would be. Not sure what’s happened to Helen Hunts face though, it’s like she’s wearing a mask. She’s changed a lot from Twister!

Guessing the 23 years that have passed since Twister might have something to do with it. She is after all approaching her 60s

Rroff · 30 Oct 2019 at 01:38

checjb said:
I'm really enjoying this show. Tonight's episode did a better job of showing Dunkirk than Nolan's mega-budget movie.

Even Atonement did it better in that regard - it was never really the point of Nolan's movie.

I'm struggling with World on Fire - I ought to really be interested in it and IMO it should be a really important show as some of these stories (even in as generalised retelling rather than historically 1:1 accurate) should never be lost to the mists of time - but I find the shoehorning of contemporary issues into the era like a slap in the face at times and completely ruins big sections of it for me.