Some pretty scenery. That's it for anything positive.Bad acting. Bad writing. Boring. I cared not for even one of the characters. I cared not for what happened to them or what might happen to them. In its defense, I should say I only watched the first two episodes. I simply couldn't watch any more. I'm surprised the Germans weren't driven off the island from sheer boredom. Ooh, those nasty soldiers whistled at me after my father's funeral! Waaah!!How did Angelique become an expert in photography all of a sudden? Why was she even with the bailiff when he thought he spotted Phillip?There are two hours of my life I'll never get back.

I have to say, I'm not impressed. Frankly, the LWT series "Enemy at the Door," covered the same territory, only with better actors - (people who actually have and had careers) and they didn't feel the need to invent a fictional island. Anyone with even the vaguest familiarity with history, knows that the events in the real Channel Islands during World War II provide more than enough drama and controversy. Of course the production values are better for Island at War, and obviously the technology had improved since the days of Enemy (1977-1980) But they had the advantage of having a tech adviser who was actually on Guernsey during the Occupation, which helped considerably. Of the two series, in my opinion, there's no question about which is the better one- and it's not Island at War.

I think that many people are being very cynical about this. i think nowadays people have the misconception that everything that they watch must be original and groundbreaking. Island at war is a nice wee drama, you don't have to think about what is happening it is all there in front of you. Do people really want to be watching things that stimulate the mind NO i think is the answer to that, especially not on a Sunday night. The acting was all of a very good quality and i have to say i feel it says a lot about the story as prestigious actors such as james wilby being in it. I think it also showed a true outlook on times in the Nazi occupied channel-islands, as it didn't make it seem ridiculously awful, it didn't make all the Germans seem like extremist nazi's it showed them as humans, also as much as people may not like to believe it but British women and German men did get together it was inevitable. Over all i thought that island at war was no masterpiece but it was very nice and easy watching of a Sunday and people shouldn't be so critical of it

Britain's obsession with World War II goes on, with this latest TV series exploring Channel Island life under the Nazis.When I saw the first episode, it reminded me of another how-a-community-invaded-by-Nazis-copes-during-The-War ITV series - Monsignor Renard - from a few years ago, and I wondered whether the same guys in charge of commissioning at ITV were responsible for this. At least, this series doesn't have the awful northern English accents (in place of French language) that Renard had (the community was based in a town in northern France, so they used northern English accents to reflect this, geddit?), so you would have dialogue like "Ay up, Monsieur Boulanger, I 'ope you 'av summit for me today. My little nipper loves a bit of your bread 'ee does"!!But thankfully, unlike the late, great John Thaw in Monsignor Renard, there is no actor in Island at War whose career can be blighted by this lame duck of a series. Nearly all of the actors are unknown to me, although I have seen some of the faces (presumably in other weak televisual efforts) before. I found it very difficult to achieve any empathy for any of the characters from the fictional Channel island of St Gregory (why did they have to create a fictional island? most Brits who watch this know that there are only two Channel islands with big populations!!!).The Nazis are, of course, cardboard cut-out Nazis. Yes, there is a pilot who reckons he doesn't really want to be at war, but most of the rest of the Germans could have come straight out of an Indiana Jones movie.Then there's the obligatory war-time spiv character, who's been around since Private Walker in Dad's Army. He knows how to make a bob or two out of other people's misery, but does what he can to help out too... blah... blah! Bollocks!I could go on, but what's the point? This TV series just should not have been made. It's a highly unoriginal idea, with poor, predictable script writing and uninspired acting.No doubt most of the TV critics in British newspapers will applaud it, but then, in this country, we are never going to let the poor old Germans forget about the events of 60 years ago! Surely, it's time to move on chaps.