The film starring Meg Tilly, Jodi Balfour, Charlotte Hegele is directed by Michael MacLennan, Adrienne Mitchell. The fist episiod about Gladys Witham's life who is a rich girl and feels boring. Everything changes when she works at Victory Munitions where she realizes there are many interesting things around.
Part docudrama, part soap-opera, Bomb Girls offers an entertaining interpretation of Canadian factory women's experiences during WWII, which includes doing the jobs that the men usually did, and coping with having loved ones go to war.
Essentially a prime-time soap, Bomb Girls is a well-plotted, smartly written soap that doesn't shy away from, shocking, even gruesome, plot turns in showing the dangers of working in a bomb-making factory.
There was tremendous potential with Bomb Girls. The idea is fine and the execution of the look is extraordinary. But the strained mimicking of melodrama from the 1940s and 1950s sinks it.
