“If the word Lockerbie will be associated with this terrible tragedy,” intones a priest at a memorial ceremony, “perhaps it will also be spoken of in the future with admiration through the example of its people.” And so it is in The Bombing of Pan Am 103, Netflix’s new chronicle of the 1988 attack that claimed 270 lives.
It is the people of this small Scottish town, Jonathan Lee’s drama makes clear, who rushed to one another’s aid in the crisis, who worked tirelessly to pursue answers, who embraced mourners from around the world. As a tribute to their compassion and tenacity in the face of horror, the six-part miniseries is above reproach — respectful and respectable, laudatory but dignified.
The Bombing of Pan Am 103
The Bottom Line
Respectable but not memorable.
