The 'World on Fire' Season 2 Trailer Brings the War Home

While World War II dramas can sometimes seem like they're a dime a dozen within the world of British entertainment, Masterpiece's sprawling World on Fire has set itself apart by telling this familiar story in a completely fresh and unexpected way. The drama aims to tell the story of the war through the eyes of the ordinary, everyday people both fighting and surviving it, and its scope is spread across characters in multiple countries and with diverse (and often marginalized) identities.  A World War II story about precisely the sort of central figures who rarely get to star in war epics, World on Fire's story features women, LGBTQ characters, and people of color in ways we haven't seen in this genre before.

A surprise pandemic-era hit for PBS, the drama's first season aired in the spring of 2020 and was almost immediately renewed for a second. But the show was also one of the hardest hit by the ongoing COVID-related lockdowns and travel restrictions (it does, after all, film in multiple countries) and is only now three years later, finally making its way back to our screens.

But, on the plus side, if the newly released Masterpiece trailer is anything to go by, the series' return will be worth the wait. Season 1 ended with the beginning of the Battle of Britain. As its second begins, it's clear that war has officially come to England.