"Close to the Enemy" Episode #1.7 (TV Episode 2016) Poster

(TV Mini Series)

(2016)

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A fitting end, as we learn the true enemy
Sleepin_Dragon14 June 2017
Warning: Spoilers
It's the day of Dieter's wedding, and Callum is in a deep state of anger and unease, everywhere he turns he sees despair and injustice. He sees Dieter, preparing to marry, he sees Alex practically begging him to continue his affair with Rachel, and he sees the betrayal from Harold. Victor once again escapes hospital and stops his brother from running down Dieter, Dieter's fate rests elsewhere. With the end of the hotel comes the end of an era, all the guests pack up for the last time.

What more could you ask from a concluding episode in a drama serial, every loose end was tied up, and the outcomes were unpredictable but well delivered. It felt like everyone got a chance finishing, I was so pleased to see Lindsay Duncan and Angela Bassett sign off having had impressive scenes. The entire cast were enigmatic again, Freddie Highmore once again proving to be intensely captivating.

After several serene and rambling scenes from earlier episodes it concluded with true substance. An ending I certainly did not predict.

Captivating 9/10
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4/10
Episode 7
Prismark1012 March 2017
When Frau Belinghausen gives the formula for her perfume she also gives a speech to Lindsay-Jones as to how easy it was to turn a blind eye when the Nazis were taking away the Jews from the factories or her neighbourhood it does make you wonder how would we behave if the same thing happened today. A few weeks after the episode's broadcast the newly installed President Trump banned visitors from some Muslim majority countries, refused to take Muslim asylum seekers from Syria and asked US citizens entering their own country about which religion they practised.

I think in a way Poliakoff managed to make his point but it was a flabby journey to get there and it took real world events to drive it home.

Dieter marries Anna with Cal as best man and plans to give a best man's speech. Victor newly released from hospital reckons Cal is planning a bit more than just give a speech and tells Lindsay-Jones that Cal aware of Dieter's true background wants to kill Dieter. It is Lindsay-Jones who takes action perhaps to atone for his earlier failings before the war started.

A wasteful series that wasted many of its actors and it really could had told its story in half the time.
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