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- HULU
- Mar 28, 2024
- HULU
- Mar 28, 2024
Summary A Jewish family's journey to be reunited after World War II separates them from each other is at the center of the adaptation of Georgia Hunter's novel that itself was inspired by the real history of her own relatives.
- HULU
- Mar 28, 2024
- HULU
- Mar 28, 2024
We Were the Lucky Ones
Season 1
Season Premiere: Mar 28, 2024
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Summary A Jewish family's journey to be reunited after World War II separates them from each other is at the center of the adaptation of Georgia Hunter's novel that itself was inspired by the real history of her own relatives.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
80
92% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
8% Mixed
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1 Review
0% Negative
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So yes, the miniseries is challenging, and steeped in heartbreak, and unrelenting. But it joins a growing inventory of important, eye-opening, memorable, and timely TV takes on the Holocaust and World War II. Ultimately it is as rewarding as it is harrowing.
It occasionally struggles to find a balance between its many competing storylines. But it is also a series whose whole is so much greater than the sum of its parts, tackling themes of family, loyalty, love, trauma, and tragedy in ways that will feel almost painfully prescient when compared to our current global moment.
As much as “We Were the Lucky Ones” tells an extraordinary story of endurance and triumph, the show never loses sight of suffering, and of what kind of person someone has to be to let that happen.
What makes “We Are the Lucky Ones,” premiering Thursday on Hulu, work as well as it does is that it’s first and foremost a family drama; it never leaves its characters’ sides to take in the bigger picture. The Warsaw ghetto uprising is shown only as noise and smoke across a wall, glimpsed from afar.
No matter how devastating these stories get, what binds all of them together is a sense of hope — stubborn, hard-won, fainter at certain times than others but always undeniably there. So overwhelming is its sense of heart that it’s able to propel the series past some noticeable unevenness, all the way toward a finish that merits the tears it gets.
The continued good luck of the Kurc family might play into the title, but it lowers the stakes at every turn. Where else have we seen a Jewish man shout at and belittle a Nazi officer and walk away with nothing more than a few bruises? Nevertheless, We Were the Lucky Ones is a worthwhile watch this spring.
Despite its many virtues, Lucky Ones falls into the same traps as too many other Holocaust dramas. The script can be quite lazy, filled with whole sentences we’ve heard before.
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