This might have been the worst piece of television I have ever seen. The acting was abysmal, the cgi ugly, the conflicts tired and cliché (and this is coming from a liberal as well as a feminist - the blatant pandering to today's extreme left, on so many occasions to boost, was cringey af), the characters were one-dimensional at best and offensively stereotypical at worst (also, everyone aside from the soldier was blindingly white), everything was predictable and just very, very dumb.

I'm gonna go read the novella and never come near this series ever again.

I used to teach British English, and would make my students (over 18) watch an episode each week :) They really liked it! :)