{"id":572459,"date":"2023-04-29T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-small-light-review-a-profound-anne-frank-series-from-nat-geo\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T19:00:00","slug":"watch-a-small-light-review-a-profound-anne-frank-series-from-nat-geo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-small-light-review-a-profound-anne-frank-series-from-nat-geo\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;A Small Light&#8217; Review: A Profound Anne Frank Series From Nat Geo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a407025e8448\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a407025e8448\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-small-light-review-a-profound-anne-frank-series-from-nat-geo\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98A_Small_Light_Review_A_Profound_Anne_Frank_Series_From_Nat_Geo%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;A Small Light&#8217; Review: A Profound Anne Frank Series From Nat Geo&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-small-light-review-a-profound-anne-frank-series-from-nat-geo\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98A_Small_Light_Review_A_Profound_Anne_Frank_Series_From_Nat_Geo%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;A Small Light&#8217; Review: A Profound Anne Frank Series From Nat Geo&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98A_Small_Light_Review_A_Profound_Anne_Frank_Series_From_Nat_Geo%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;A Small Light&#8217; Review: A Profound Anne Frank Series From Nat Geo&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98A_Small_Light_Review_A_Profound_Anne_Frank_Series_From_Nat_Geo%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;A Small Light&#8217; Review: A Profound Anne Frank Series From Nat Geo&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who hid in a cramped attic with her family during the Nazi occupation in Amsterdam, is widely known, and amid the atrocities of the Holocaust, Anne\u2019s diary presents a story of resilience and unrealized dreams. Nat Geo\u2019s new limited <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> \u201cA Small Light\u201d isn\u2019t Anne\u2019s story, though the precocious teen\u2019s legacy is embedded throughout. The brainchild of former \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d showrunners Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, the series is a tale of resistance, activism and humanity. The narrative centers on one tenacious young woman, Miep Gies, Otto Frank\u2019s secretary, who risked everything to save the Frank family, and countless others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Beautifully shot by Phelan, Susanna Fogel and Leslie Hope, with a slight sepia tone to ground the audience in the time period, the series opens on July 6, 1942, when the Frank family goes into hiding. Miep (Bel Powley) is tasked with getting Otto\u2019s (Liev Schreiber) eldest daughter Margot (Ashley Brooke) through a Nazi checkpoint and into the secret annex above the office building where Miep and Otto work. Quick thinking and determined, Miep ushers the teen to safety via bicycle past the gun-toting and cruel German soldiers. It\u2019s the first of many risks she takes to combat the racist, authoritarian regime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    With Margot safely sequestered, the series goes back in time to 1933. Nine years before the Franks vanished from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, the audience is introduced to a 20something Miep, whose life and focus are a world away from Germany\u2019s newly installed Nazi regime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    At 24, Miep differs significantly from the 33-year-old woman who captivates in \u201cA Small Light.\u201d Still living with her adoptive parents and brothers, she spends her days frolicking with her best friend Tess (Eleanor Tomlinson), dancing, drinking and bantering with Jan (Joe Cole), the man who would eventually become her husband. An ultimatum from her increasingly exasperated parents lands Miep at the Opekta office run by Otto Frank, who had recently emigrated from Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    By framing the pilot around Miep\u2019s past, the audience becomes acquainted with a woman \u2014 an immigrant in her own right \u2014who has always shunned tradition, embraced the ostracized and marched to the beat of her own drum. Miep\u2019s bond with the Frank family, Anne (Billie Boullet) in particular, becomes a central component of the show. Therefore, nine years later, as Miep nimbly moves through now-Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, it\u2019s clear why she doesn\u2019t hesitate when Otto asks for her help. Powley\u2019s performance is particularly arresting. Her sharp blue gaze and determination to do what was right at a time when others looked the other way sets the series\u2019 tone from the pilot through the finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Across eight episodes, \u201cA Small Light\u201d portrays an increasingly hostile Amsterdam, while centering Miep and Jan\u2019s mutual and respective acts of resistance. While Miep acts to aid those in the annex, taking on shopping lists, having heart-wrenching talks with her stoic boss and even aiding additional Jewish refugees, Jan\u2019s defiant acts also get increasingly dangerous. Phelan and Rater zoom in on the effects of their choices. The secrets and fear sometimes causes friction in their marriage and reverberates in their relationships with others. Yet, Miep and Jan\u2019s willingness to protect the ostracized extends well beyond the Frank family and the additional four people hiding in the annex. The series also showcases the couple\u2019s resolve to aid their landlady\u2019s grandchildren, college students, babies, nurses and workers at Amsterdam\u2019s Jewish council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cMotherland,\u201d the series\u2019 third episode, is a standout. The lack of space, light, and freedom wears on the mental health and well-being of the hidden and oppressed. This is carefully juxtaposed with the exhaustion and sorrow felt by Miep, Jan and their fellow resisters, who are trying to maintain their courage in a world festering with hate. In the episode, Jan is tasked with collecting a package, which leads to a jaw-dropping revelation. Meanwhile, tight living quarters in the annex cause frustrations and irritations to bubble up, particularly with an increasingly frazzled Edith Frank (Amira Casar).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There is a lot of anguish in watching \u201cA Small Light,\u201d mainly because the ending is already known. Yet Rater and Phelan, and writers William Harper, Ben Esler and Alyssa Margarite, Jacobson sprinkle in glittering moments of defiance, humor and perseverance that help temper the very real feelings of rage and terror laced throughout the series. It\u2019s a balancing act that isn\u2019t often handled as eloquently as it is here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In \u201cA Small Light,\u201d as in life, there are no innocent bystanders, only people who refuse to act. Ultimately, Miep preserved history with Anne\u2019s diary. She returned the young girl\u2019s words to her brokenhearted father, the sole survivor out of the eight hidden in the annex. \u201cA Small Light\u201d showcases humanity\u2019s wounds, and what\u2019s at stake if people refuse to stand up to evil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    <em>\u201cA Small Light\u201d premieres on Monday, May 1, at 9\/8c on National Geographic with two back-to-back episodes. 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