SummaryInspired by the Julie Summer book, Jambusters, Frances Barden (Samantha Bond) clashes with Joyce Cameron (Francesca Annis) over their branch of the Women’s Institute in this drama set in the small English village of Great Paxford.
SummaryInspired by the Julie Summer book, Jambusters, Frances Barden (Samantha Bond) clashes with Joyce Cameron (Francesca Annis) over their branch of the Women’s Institute in this drama set in the small English village of Great Paxford.
Home Fires is noticeably cheesy in parts (feel free to enhance your fun by supplying arch commentary to the dialogue), but it’s also easily absorbing. Also, for those paying close attention, the series is a contextually and satisfyingly feminist take on war.
It’s the kind of lushly produced, complexly plotted series that wraps everything in a wet towel of sentiment.... If you stick with it, though, the sheer weight of the plot machinery and the performances will probably pull you in, beginning about midway through the third episode.