WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES centered around the holiday of Rosh Hoshana’s period of reflection. This is in many ways ironic since the Jews had lost all control over their lives during World War II’s brutal, and horrific Holocaust. All that was left for the Kure family was the reaction to what was happening around them and how to just survive and reunite one day again.
This episode highlighted the day-to-day angst among the living, the captured, the escapees, and the vast visceral, cinematography of the dead. It showed what deep down all of us can do when put to the test. The action put me on high alert every moment. The superb acting skills of the entire ensemble and the writers created unimaginable scenes that would shake any human to their core. “We are all afraid…how do we feed our children?”
WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES is first and foremost a series about how to continually “make family be the light” for the world. It literally hurts to watch, yet we must. It is powerful, poignant, and filled with glimmers of hope along the darkness. It is streaming on Hulu.
