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From ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ to ‘Masters of the Air,’ Inside the Rise of World War II TV Shows
This awards season, there are multiple series around WWII — and it’s more relevant than ever.
But the showrunner was less interested in passing judgment on how someone survived, and more invested in putting audiences inside the interminable uncertainty of life in an occupied city — a painfully timely mission with global crises like Ukraine. “All the Light We Cannot See,” based on Anthony Doerr’s bestselling novel, similarly follows Marie-Laure (Aria Mia Loberti), a blind French girl living in the fortified city of Saint-Malo, who secretly broadcasts coded radio transmissions for the Allies while she cautiously walks the same streets as the Nazi occupiers. Based on the novel by Heather Morris, the series features Harvey Keitel (and Jonah Hauer-King in flashbacks) as Lali Sokolov, a camp survivor whose job was to tattoo identification numbers on the arms of prisoners.
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