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The show was canceled after two seasons.
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* IHaveYourWife: Kasia is tasked with spying on another Polish woman in England by MI5. It turns out the woman is spying for the Germans, and says it's due to them having her son in prison with the threat of death hanging over him if she doesn't.

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* IHaveYourWife: Kasia is tasked with spying on another Polish woman in England by MI5.[=MI5=]. It turns out the woman is spying for the Germans, and says it's due to them having her son in prison with the threat of death hanging over him if she doesn't.
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** The first-season finale reveals the back story behind Harry's late father: he was a shell-shocked veteran of WWI like Douglas, except that he killed himself after he got home.

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** The first-season first season finale reveals the back story backstory behind Harry's late father: he was a shell-shocked veteran of WWI like Douglas, except that he killed himself after he got home.



* ToughLove: Robina was a rather cold and stand-offish parent to Harry. When he brings little Jan to the mansion she says straight-up that she has no maternal instincts at all.

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* ToughLove: Robina was a rather cold and stand-offish parent to Harry. When he brings little Jan to the mansion she says straight-up that she has no maternal instincts at all.all, although she gradually warms to him.

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* The Bennetts, a working-class family in Yorkshire. Douglas (Creator/SeanBean) is a veteran of World War I who suffers from shell-shock. His son Tom is a petty criminal. His daughter Lois is in love with...

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* The Bennetts, a working-class family in Yorkshire. Douglas (Creator/SeanBean) is a veteran of World War I who suffers from shell-shock. shell-shock and is an avowed pacifist. His son Tom is a petty criminal. criminal who joins the Navy. His daughter Lois is a night club singer who is in love with...



* Kasia Tomaszeski, a waitress. Her father Stefan and brother Grzegorz join the Polish Army at the start of the war. Kasia and Harry wind up getting married as the Germans approach, at the urging of...

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* Kasia Tomaszeski, a waitress. Her father Stefan and brother Grzegorz join the Polish Army at the start of the war. Kasia and Harry wind up getting married to protect her as the Germans approach, at the urging of...



* HeroicSacrifice: In the first episode, Kasia puts her younger brother Jan on the train out of Poland in her place, sending him with Harry to safety in England while she endures the horrors of the German occupation.



** [[spoiler: Douglas Bennett dies in an air raid between Seasons 1 and 2. ** Ditto for Vernon, the RAF pilot who was going to marry Lois, killed in the Battle of Britain.]]

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** [[spoiler: Douglas [[spoiler:Douglas Bennett dies in an air raid between Seasons 1 and 2. 2]].
** Ditto [[spoiler:Ditto for Vernon, the RAF pilot who was going to marry Lois, killed in the Battle of Britain.]]Britain]].



* OnePersonBirthdayParty: Kasia holds one in Warsaw for her youngest brother who is away with Harry's mother in England; she sings "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sto_lat Sto lat]]"[[labelnote:*]]the Polish equivalent to HappyBirthdayToYou[[/labelnote]] and blows out a lone candle on a single cupcake.

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* OnePersonBirthdayParty: Kasia holds one in Warsaw for her youngest brother who is away brother, Jan, who's safely living with Harry's mother in England; she sings "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sto_lat Sto lat]]"[[labelnote:*]]the Polish equivalent to HappyBirthdayToYou[[/labelnote]] and blows out a lone candle on a single cupcake.
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* BuryYourDisabled: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. The introduction of Aktion T4 leads to the mass murder of people with disabilities in Nazi Germany. [[spoiler:The Rosslers' daughter Hilda has epilepsy and her mother kills her and then herself in a MurderSuicide that could be seen as a MercyKill.]]

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* BuryYourDisabled: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. The introduction of Aktion T4 leads to the mass murder of people with disabilities in Nazi Germany. [[spoiler:The Rosslers' daughter Hilda has epilepsy and her mother kills her and then herself in a MurderSuicide that could rather than allow her to be seen as a MercyKill.killed by the state.]]
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* Webster O'Connor (Creator/BrianJSmith), who's working as a doctor in Paris. Webster is gay, and has fallen in love with a Parisian saxophone player named Albert.

A four-year SequelGap caused by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in some storylines being dropped and some new ones added. Harry, Robina, Lois, and Kasia are back, and this time they're joined by:

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* Webster O'Connor (Creator/BrianJSmith), who's working as a doctor in Paris.Paris in the same hospital as a Jewish nurse named Henriette. Webster is gay, and has fallen in love with a Parisian saxophone player named Albert.

A four-year SequelGap caused by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in some storylines being dropped and some new ones added. Harry, Robina, Henriette, Albert, Lois, and Kasia are back, and this time they're joined by:



* Marga, a teenaged German girl who, in her ignorance and guilelessness, winds up voluntering for a Nazi ''Lebensborn'' baby farm.

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* Marga, a teenaged German girl who, in her ignorance and guilelessness, winds up voluntering volunteering for a Nazi ''Lebensborn'' baby farm.



* IncompatibleOrientation: Henriette is attracted to Webster, and kisses him in a moment of passion. She seems aware that he's gay though, pulling away and then apologizing.

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* IncompatibleOrientation: Henriette is attracted to Webster, and kisses him in a moment of passion. She seems aware that he's gay gay, though, pulling away and then apologizing.
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A four-year SequelGap caused by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in some storylines being dropped and some new ones added. Harry, Lois, and Kasia are back, and this time they're joined by:

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A four-year SequelGap caused by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in some storylines being dropped and some new ones added. Harry, Robina, Lois, and Kasia are back, and this time they're joined by:

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Alphabetizing, Example Indentation.


* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Helen Hunt does not appear in Season 2. Presumably Nancy is off being an IntrepidReporter somewhere else. Webster the gay pianist from Season 1 also does not appear.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
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Helen Hunt does not appear in Season 2. Presumably Nancy is off being an IntrepidReporter somewhere else.
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Webster the gay pianist from Season 1 also does not appear.



* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Douglas Bennett dies in an air raid between Seasons 1 and 2. Ditto for Vernon, the RAF pilot who was going to marry Lois, killed in the Battle of Britain.]]

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* KilledOffscreen: KilledOffscreen:
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[[spoiler: Douglas Bennett dies in an air raid between Seasons 1 and 2. ** Ditto for Vernon, the RAF pilot who was going to marry Lois, killed in the Battle of Britain.]]



* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Mrs. Rossler realizes that Hilda will be taken away and killed by the Nazi euthanasia program no matter what she does, so she tragically decides to kill her daughter herself, followed by taking her own life shortly afterwards.]]



* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Mrs. Rossler realizes that Hilda will be taken away and killed by the Nazi euthanasia program no matter what she does, so she tragically decides to kill her daughter herself, followed by taking her own life shortly afterwards.]]
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* WeddingRingRemoval: In the Season 2 finale, Kasia takes off her wedding ring, since her marriage with Harry seems to be over now that she's decided to be a secret agent. Harry puts it back on her finger, telling her that being a married woman will be a better cover.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Ralph, a thoroughly indoctrinated Nazi, tells his parents in episode 2.6 that the Russians are offering little resistance and the Germans will beat them easily.

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* BittersweetEnding: Season 2 offers an assortment of endings. The good: David has made it safely back to England. Lois has come back to reclaim her baby. Both Harry and Rajib are still alive. The bad: Kasia and Harry's brief marriage appears to be over as she leaves to be an operative behind the lines in Poland. Robina rejects a chance at happiness with Sir James. Henriette has been arrested and is being taken away to the Ravensbruck concentration camp, but she's going to try to escape.



* BolivianArmyCliffhanger: The first series ends with [[spoiler:Harry and Kasia's attempt to leave Poland with the Resistance rumbled. The resistance cell are massacred, and Harry and Kasia are fleeing up a hill surrounded, outgunned and outnumbered.]]

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* BolivianArmyCliffhanger: The first series ends with [[spoiler:Harry and Kasia's attempt to leave Poland with the Resistance rumbled. The resistance cell are massacred, and Harry and Kasia are fleeing up a hill surrounded, outgunned and outnumbered.]]]] See also NoodleIncident below.


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* NoodleIncident: The first season ends with Harry and Kasia in Poland, surrounded by Nazis, seemingly about to be captured and killed. Season 2 finds them safe and sound in England. Does the show explain how they made their escape? No.
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* SequelHook: A BBC radio broadcast in the last scene of Season 2 references the fall of Kiev, dating the action to September 1941 and reminding the audience that soon the tide will turn against the Germans. It also mentions the United States supporting the Allied war effort, a reminder that soon the USA will join the war as a combatant.

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* David, an RAF pilot who happens to be Jewish, who winds up being shot down in France.


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* TrappedBehindEnemyLines: Much of David's plot line in Season 2 has him stuck in France, in enemy territory, after he is shot down. Henriette finally helps him to the coast, where he hops on a boat and makes it back to England.
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A four-year SequelGap caused by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in some storylines being dropped and some new ones added. Harry, Lois, and Kasia are back, and this time they're joined by:

* Captain Rajib Pal, an Indian officer serving alongside Harry in North Africa. He has to confront the dilemma of serving the British Empire in a war when, back home, his own country is struggling to free itself from Britain.
* Marga, a teenaged German girl who, in her ignorance and guilelessness, winds up voluntering for a Nazi ''Lebensborn'' baby farm.
* Sir James Danemere, an older British gentleman who winds up boarding with Robina. He's up to something secret.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Helen Hunt does not appear in Season 2. Presumably Nancy is off being an IntrepidReporter somewhere else.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Helen Hunt does not appear in Season 2. Presumably Nancy is off being an IntrepidReporter somewhere else. Webster the gay pianist from Season 1 also does not appear.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Helen Hunt does not appear in Season 2. Presumably Nancy is off being an IntrepidReporter somewhere else.



* DemotedToExtra: Lois's brother Tom, a sailor in the Royal Navy, has a greatly reduced role in Season 2, appearing in only a handful of scenes. (Actor Ewan Mitchell was busy with ''House of the Dragon''.)



* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Douglas Bennett dies in an air raid between Seasons 1 and 2.]]

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* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Douglas Bennett dies in an air raid between Seasons 1 and 2. Ditto for Vernon, the RAF pilot who was going to marry Lois, killed in the Battle of Britain.]]

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* IHaveYourWife: Kasia is tasked with spying on another Polish woman in England by MI5. It turns out the woman is spying for the Germans, and says it's due to them having her son in prison with the threat of death hanging over him if she doesn't.



* LoveTriangle: Between Harry, Lois, and Kasia.

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* LoveTriangle: Between Harry, Lois, and Kasia. Harry married Kasia, who goes to England with her little brother later. Harry, however, gets Lois pregnant due to a tryst they have. Kasia is extremely understanding of this, and even helps care for his baby with Lois. Neither is too keen on Harry after learning about each other, as you'd expect, and he's soon off to war anyway.
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* BabyFactory: Gertha and other "pure Aryan" German girls get recruited for having babies with chosen SS men in the Lebensborn program. Their worth for the Reich is solely about this-after giving birth they have to give up the baby.
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* BadassInDistress: Kasia, who's slowly become a hardened Polish resistance fighter, nonetheless gets captured when the Germans ambush her during another honey trap operation. She's captured and then sentenced to death. However, while being marched off to the gallows resistance fighters rescue her.

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* BadassInDistress: Kasia, who's slowly become a hardened Polish resistance fighter, nonetheless gets captured when the Germans ambush her during another honey trap operation. She's captured and then sentenced to death. However, while being marched off to the gallows resistance fighters rescue her.
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I guess that's unnecessary because it's actually the very first episode.


* ActionPrologue: 1.01 opens with Lois and Harry infiltrating a rally of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts. Harry gets beaten up, and they are both arrested.

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* ActionPrologue: 1.01 The first episode opens with Lois and Harry infiltrating a rally of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts. Harry gets beaten up, and they are both arrested.

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Editing, expanding.


* ActionGirl: Kasia slowly becomes this as a resistance fighter, learning how to use guns and also killing several German soldiers personally.

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* ActionGirl: ActionGirl:
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Kasia slowly becomes this as a resistance fighter, learning how to use guns and also killing several German soldiers personally.personally.
** In Season 2 Lois has become an ambulance driver during the Blitz, very dangerous work that gets her wounded during a bombing by the Germans.



* ChummieCommies: Luc, a French communist who's arrested for opposing the Nazis, is treated sympathetically because he's on the good side.

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* ChummieCommies: ChummyCommies: Luc, a French communist who's arrested for opposing the Nazis, is treated sympathetically because he's on the good side.

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