So far the Gothic and ghostly Marchlands and Lightfields series have only aired in the UK, available to U.S. audiences only if you buy a European boxed set for an international DVD player from a source such as eBay or Amazon.co.uk. We did just that and reviewed the superb first series in our review of Marchlands here earlier this year. This past February the next installment of the multi-generational ghost story set in a common British manor, Lightfields, introduced a new cast of characters, new time periods and a new home as setting. The new five-installment series is certain to please fans of the first series, adding a more intricately woven plot and plenty of surprises. No word yet when these series will make it to the States, but when they do you’ll know to program the DVR accordingly.
As with Marchlands, Lightfields follows three sets of families in a manor house, all interconnected by a common event in the past. For Lightfields it is 1944, 1975, and 2012. In 1944 we meet the Felwoods, a typical British rural family during wartime. A girl named Eve (The Golden Compass’s Dakota Blue Richards) has come up to escape from the London blitz, befriending the seventeen-year-old Felwood daughter Lucy (Antonia Clarke). One year Lucy’s senior, Lucy flaunts her maturity prompting Lucy to be drawn to an American serviceman (Neil Jackson, Quantum of Solace, White Collar, How I Met Your Mother, Stargate SG-1) looking only for a fling while on R&R. Lucy is at the core of the ghost story, dying in a barn fire at the beginning of the series. Why she was in the barn, who else saw what happened, and who caused the fire are the questions ultimately revealed in the well-plotted mystery of Lightfields.
