kindkit | Secret Army

I finished watching series 1 of Secret Army (I've been at home sick for most of the last four days) and afterwards I checked Wikipedia to learn whether the beautiful Christopher Neame would be back after his departure at the end of S1. (No, alas. If you want to know why this saddens me so, have a look at some pictures of Christopher Neame here.)

Anyway, while I was on Wikipedia I couldn't resist the urge the find out what would happen to my other favorite characters. Hint: very little of it is good. Now I'm not sure if I can bear to watch more. Seriously, I have never seen a show as bleak as this, and I've watched Blake's 7.

Also, it appears that Secret Army becomes increasingly anti-communist as the show goes on, which is . . . weird. I could understand the way the Red Army advance was portrayed in Colditz as something that terrified everyone, because what the Red Army did as it went into Germany was pretty fucking awful (though still less awful than what the Nazis did first). But to portray a bunch of Belgian and French communist resistance fighters as, from the way things sounded on Wikipedia, possibly more villainous than the Gestapo. . . I don't fucking think so.

I may end up watching series 2, because there's one character I do rather want to follow to the (unhappy) end of their story. But I'm also playing "what else has Christopher Neame been in" and may end up watching some of the less dire-sounding of those things, which mostly translates to the things he did before he went to America. The good thing (?) about getting crushes on actors is that you watch lots of stuff you might not otherwise.

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