Review: Struggle. Sacrifice. Cooperation. PBS drama 'World on Fire' shows how to win a war
Zofia Wichłacz and Jonah Hauer-King are in love amid war in “World on Fire,” a new presentation of the PBS series “Masterpiece.”
Though war is the glue that holds these stories together, the reagent that intensifies the drama, it is not the series’ main subject. “World on Fire” lacks the patriotic cant the subject often brings out. In or out of the action the characters act from motives that are distinctly personal and immediate; the national, or multinational, project is never the point.
And because this is a war story, about 10 minutes in, I was seized by the sudden consciousness that some of these characters, some of whom I had already begun to like, might well be dead before the end — a very current sort of thought, as one might find oneself reckoning projected fatality rates against a list of one’s Facebook friends.
Big scenes and effects — firefights, bombing raids, strafings, mass movements and the like — are expertly done, immediate and suspenseful and shocking, staking you to the moment. The occasional false notes — nearly everything involved with music knocked me right out of the dramatic reality, but that is a subject I know something about — only reinforce the fact that the show is so successful.
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