World on Fire (TV Series) Episode #1.4 (2019) User Reviews

The battles rage.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 8 December 2019]

I am engrossed in this drama, the story is fantastic, both the big scale, and on the domestic front.

Some of the battle scenes were incredible, it looked amazing. There was a harsh grit to many of the fights, they looked superb. Some degree of violence, and it was shown for what it is.

The scenes between Lesley Manville and Sean Bean were terrific, two of the best, they played off one another so well.

The midway point, and there is no lull, it's getting better if anything. Love it. 8/10

Excellent Series so far

[MViggen001 · 8/10 · 11 November 2023]

The series is very good with excellent representation of the time line during that period.

The battle scenes are fairly good and keep the show interesting, however I can do without the modern day messaging and issues that affect some of the characters.

I do appreciate how the merge the personal lives into the time line with excellent story lines that intertwine with each other. Sean Bean is excellent as is the entire cast.

One item I can't seem to understand and appears to be a major blooper is how does Grzegorz and his fellow soldier Konrad go from Eastern Poland to France? If I am not mistaken there is a country in between that just so happens to be Germany. So did they cross all of Germany to get to France? Please explain.

Episode 4

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 11 December 2019]

Tom Bennett returns home having survived a baptism of fire on the Exeter.

He tells his dad Douglas that he wants out of the war and be a conscientious objector. Douglas knows that ain't going to work and Tom will be classed as a deserter.

After upsetting his son. Douglas upsets his daughter Lois by telling Robina Chase that her son Harry has got his daughter pregnant. Robina was of the opinion that Lois might make a better daughter in law than some Polish waitress. She is not happy that Douglas might want money. It ia a great scene between Sean Bean and Lesley Manville with Douglas not quiet finding the right words.

There are some very good battle scenes in this episode. Harry having is own baptism of fire going after a sniper in Belgium.

Back in Warsaw Kasia discovers that she can lure German soldiers herself and shoot them dead.

Only reporter's Nancy Campbell's (Helen Hunt) story has a false note. Maybe this was one strand too much in this epic tale.

English troops in Poland?

[henrik-wilhelmsson-674-13070 · 5/10 · 25 January 2020]

Somebody please tell me why there was english troops in a polish forest? Or did I miss something?

British troops in Poland lol

[nikolamil93 · 1/10 · 19 February 2020]

The story is good, but its funny to see that there is British soldier in Poland in 1940. Its funny because it's not true. So why you ruin a series ?

Logic failing the script again

[Bert45 · 5/10 · 3 February 2020]

There is no doubt that World On Fire has had a handsome amount of money thrown at it, but one wishes that an equal amount of effort could have been put in to making the storylines logical. In episode three, the character of Tom was portrayed as being involved in a naval battle that he could not possibly have been present at, on a ship - the HMS Exeter - that he could not have served in. In this episode, the two Polish soldiers on the run have somehow managed to find their way across Europe from Poland to France (through a snow-covered forest in May), and met up with a contingent of British troops there. There is no explanation in the script about how they could have possibly achieved this. Are we meant to assume that they walked across two German borders and through the front lines of the German offensive in France? If the writers want us to believe in the storylines of this drama, then they should at least give the viewers some credit for knowing what was, and wasn't, possible for their characters to do in the first year of the Second World War.

Great production but what on earch are BEF troops doing in Poland? Or how did Kasias littlebrother reach the Western front?

[janmagnussen · 3/10 · 11 April 2020]

A lot of money went into this production and with good acting from in particular Sean Bean and Zofia Wichlacz it is really sad that an ahistorical detail lets the series down. What on earth are BEF troops doing in Poland...or rather how did Kasias littlebrother reach the Western front after meeting Russians in Eastern Poland in episode 2??? I know som Poles escaped through Hungary, but through woods all the way to France??