1940s House
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Movie Reviews of 1940s House
Movie Review: Wonderful program!
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this show as much as I liked the other reality "time-travel" series put on by PBS. While Frontier House and Manor House were better in terms of human interest stories, 1940s House was interesting nonetheless. The family chosen was perfectly suited to life during wartime. With a single mother, and a husband and wife (whom the show separated often) it was easy to see how women left on the home front would have survived. The details put into making the experience authentic, including mandatory blackouts and air raid shelter orders and rationing, really helped to create the feeling of the struggle that war imposes.Movie Review: The cream of the House Series crop!
Summary: 5 Stars
Caveat - I just love the setting of wartime home front Britain. I've read the Nella Last books and other Mass Observation compilations... what a remarkable time!
Still, this is very well done - a maximum of historical and social insight and a minimum of gratuitous reality-TV arguing and snarkiness. Lyn Hymers, the grandmother, is the star of the show for me. Warm, witty, and candid, she becomes more and more so over the course of this too-short series.
The six-months-later follow-up is also helpful, providing perspective and hope, in addition to closure.
Movie Review: An inspiring piece of history
Summary: 5 Stars
I was a bit disappointed that this was not the whole series I had watched on TV but it was still great. I have huge respect for the people who lived through this and the Hymers family for taking part.
We can learn a lot from this series about the past and our own lives.
Movie Review: Best of all the "House" series
Summary: 5 Stars
The series was so real I could feel the suffering they went though. The family was the most dedicated and true of all the "House" series. Great for at home or teaching at school!Movie Review: British Family During World War II
Summary: 4 Stars
I love the concept of putting modern families into other historical eras and I think the historians involved did an excellent job of accurately recreating British life during World War II. However, I must admit I did not find this series to be quite as compelling as "Frontier House".
For one thing it was impossible to match the emotional intensity that London families must have been experiencing during the real German bombings. Going out to the bomb shelters was really more of an inconvience for the Hymers. While British families in World War II were actually in fear of their lives.
Also this series lacked the drama created by the often turbulent social interactions of the three neighboring families involved in "Frontier House". I have to give the Hymers credit for sticking it out to the end. But I found the mother and daughter to be a bit on the whiny and complaining side at times. On the other hand, the two grandsons maintained a fun, positive attitude throughout and it was a pleasure to watch their zest for life and ability to adjust to a way of life without TV and Playstation. Really great kids!
I would still consider this recommended viewing. But just a notch below the quality and dramatic appeal of "Frontier House".