World on Fire

Matt Roush says...

Masterpiece’s sprawling World War II drama returns for a second season with more conflict on the homefront and front lines. The action ranges from Manchester during the blitz, with new mother Lois (Julia Brown) risking her neck as an ambulance driver, to the treacherous Egyptian desert, where troops including the British Indian Army navigate around land mines during blinding sandstorms. Before series hero Harry Chase (Jonah Hauer-King) ships back out to the Middle East, he tries to ease tensions between his Polish bride Kasia (Zofia Wichłacz), who misses fighting for the Resistance, and his frosty mother Robina (Lesley Manville). New characters include cocky David (Gregg Sulkin), a Jewish RAF pilot, and in a chilling subplot in Berlin, 16-year-old Marga (Miriam Schiweck), a Hitler Youth enthusiast who agrees to be part of an Aryan breeding program, against her family’s wishes.

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