Unfortunately I didn't like this as much as I should have. I love puzzles. I love mysteries. I love period pieces especially WW2. I think it was the missing puzzles that was the disappointment. Others have said something similar. The puzzles were solved too quickly and I couldn't follow along. The puzzles were the hook for this show and not just window dressing so I think that was a real miscalculation on the writers and show runners.
Just a note to those who go on and how this is too feminist and why are all the men characters jerks or idiots. Two things: (1) This is a show that stars women. The men are secondary and only show up to play off of our main characters. The men weren't all idiots. Both the husband of Susan and the cop boyfriend were fine. The army leader was fine once he realized that they had a real case. And where the males were idiots is when they were underestimating the women and not showing respect. And they ended up with egg on their face. Well that is accurate. Women took on jobs during the war that they had been told they weren't up to, physically or mentally. And women proved that premise wrong. And then when the men came back all of a sudden women were treated as inferior again. And that treatment was what you see. Of course the men behaving like that look like idiots. Welcome to the real world.
(2) 95% of tv and movies under-represent women. Women are always playing the minor characters if they are even in a production. And those minor characters are often around mens' wants and needs: sex, a housekeeper, a mother for their children. And you have normalized that and think anything that shows women displaying their full lives is anti-men. You aren't even getting a taste of your own medicine fully with this piece as there are plenty of male characters. This production isn't anti-men. You are just upset that it isn't anti-women: putting women in a narrow set of roles if they are seen at all.
Just a note to those who go on and how this is too feminist and why are all the men characters jerks or idiots. Two things: (1) This is a show that stars women. The men are secondary and only show up to play off of our main characters. The men weren't all idiots. Both the husband of Susan and the cop boyfriend were fine. The army leader was fine once he realized that they had a real case. And where the males were idiots is when they were underestimating the women and not showing respect. And they ended up with egg on their face. Well that is accurate. Women took on jobs during the war that they had been told they weren't up to, physically or mentally. And women proved that premise wrong. And then when the men came back all of a sudden women were treated as inferior again. And that treatment was what you see. Of course the men behaving like that look like idiots. Welcome to the real world.
(2) 95% of tv and movies under-represent women. Women are always playing the minor characters if they are even in a production. And those minor characters are often around mens' wants and needs: sex, a housekeeper, a mother for their children. And you have normalized that and think anything that shows women displaying their full lives is anti-men. You aren't even getting a taste of your own medicine fully with this piece as there are plenty of male characters. This production isn't anti-men. You are just upset that it isn't anti-women: putting women in a narrow set of roles if they are seen at all.