Went into this 'blind' - was expecting a 4-part series about Helena Bonham Carter's Grandfather, then found out it would include Mark Rylance, Kirsten Scott Thomas, and Carey Mulligan's Grandfathers tales also. This was a great series - a deep dive on otherwise obscure boy-men: Their experiences in WW2, and some of their later relationships with their descendants. I found all of them to be interesting, even to someone whose father fought in that war and is somewhat of a history buff.
The one slight downer was Mark Rylance, whose pacifist views seemed to prevent him from being challenging/exploring a view from a Japanese apologist (a letter had supposedly been sent to FDR the day prior to the atomic bomb being used hinting of a surrender - so we 'overreacted'). He accepted this assertion at face value and never even questioned the torture of his father or compared the allies treatment of prisoners to Japans. This distracted me from the otherwise gripping account of his father.
The one slight downer was Mark Rylance, whose pacifist views seemed to prevent him from being challenging/exploring a view from a Japanese apologist (a letter had supposedly been sent to FDR the day prior to the atomic bomb being used hinting of a surrender - so we 'overreacted'). He accepted this assertion at face value and never even questioned the torture of his father or compared the allies treatment of prisoners to Japans. This distracted me from the otherwise gripping account of his father.
