TV Series2023 · 1 season · 8 episodes · Ended

A Small Light

Name: A Small Light
Genre: Drama, War & Politics
Cast: Bel Powley, Joe Cole, Amira Casar, Billie Boullet, Ashley Brooke

Taste attributes: dramawar & politicshistoricalpoliticalbiographyslowheavyrealisticintricatelineargrittyemotive & stirringcomplex relationshipdeep rivalry

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"Risk everything."

Boxlist takeExpect a realistic, heavy war and politics series, gritty rather than glossy. Best if you like depth over escapism.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: very heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: gritty · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

Quality rating

8.0 /10

TMDB · 71 votes

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Season

Miniseries

· 2023 · 8 episodes

Episodes (8)

1Pilot1 May 2023
Miep Gies, who believes she is just a secretary, is asked to hide the Franks from the Nazis.
2Welcome to Switzerland1 May 2023
Everything seems to be under control until Miep's dentist asks her if she knows a place to hide.
3Motherland8 May 2023
Laws against Jews are intensifying, landing two small children in Miep and Jan's care.
4The Butterfly8 May 2023
Miep tries to reconcile her old life with her new one but is forced to choose between the two.
5Scheissfeld15 May 2023
Miep and Jan’s marriage is tested when he ignores her plea to abandon a dangerous mission. After the Nazis suffer a huge blow at the hands of The Resistance, Jan must go into hiding while Miep fears for his life.
6Boiling Point15 May 2023
As Nazi crackdowns increase in Amsterdam, Miep must hide an innocent student from her new Nazi neighbor. When a desperate friend begs for help finding a way out of the city, Jan finds an unexpected ally and hatches a plan.
7What Can Be Saved22 May 2023
Miep's worst fear comes true when the Nazis raid the annex.
8Legacy22 May 2023
With the end of the war near, Miep fights to keep Otto's business running in hopes the Franks will return home; after the Allies liberate Amsterdam, Miep and Jan dedicate themselves to finding the Franks and the other Jewish residents of The Annex.

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What lines up

Wholesomeness: Balanced wholesomeness, just how this profile likes it
Pace: Slow, just how this profile likes it
Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it

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Realism: True to life, where this profile leans balanced realism

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Synopsis

Twentysomething Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne’s Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.

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