"A French Village" on MHz Choice

It's 1940, and a village in south central France, in the Vichy region (ostensibly free, but collaborating with the Nazis) is hearing rumors that the Germans are coming. But for the most part, the villagers go on with their everyday lives. The first hint of trouble is when a group of children and teachers out on a picnic is strafed by German planes. Soon afterwards, the Nazis arrive and start imposing martial law.

The main characters are the owner of a sawmill, who is having an adulterous affair; the town doctor and his wife; the doctor's brother, who is a Communist and the widowed father of a young son; a young schoolteacher, various town officials, and various German soldiers and officials.

They all react differently to the German occupation: some collaborate, some resist, and some just keep their heads down and try to muddle through.

No one is perfect. They all compromise, and most do dishonorable things. Although there are certainly subplots (attacks on the Germans and subsequent reprisals, the adulterous affair complicated when the woman's supposedly dead husband returns, the adoption of an "orphan," even though the adoptive parents know that the child's father is still alive and looking for him, and the beginnings of problems for the few Jewish residents), the emphasis is on the characters.

Everyone I know who has seen this likes it and binge watches it, although only four seasons have been released so far. (There are six in all.)

If you watched "Spiral," you will recognize some of the actors, especialy Thierry Godard (Gilou) and Audrey Fleurot (Karlsson).

In French and German with excellent subtitles.