Bizarre that some other posts vote this series down due to the war itself and to criticise the American regime. It's a TV show, not a party political broadcast!
Well paced and acted, I like that it's confused in places and doesn't feel the need to fill in loads of blanks about "the mission" - this is how the army is. Piecemeal. Confused. Reactive.
The language is in places offensive but authentic (they're frontline soldiers in a warzone, not office workers or school teachers), the characters and their protrayal of their vulnerabilities and weaknesses is accurate and the battle scenes, while a little cheesy, are very good too.
James Ransone and Billy Lush are brilliant as Corporal Person and Lance Corporal Trombly and Alexander Skarsgard oozes class as Sergeant "Iceman" Colbert but the whole supporting cast is well done and no-one feels superflous.
This is a well paced and very authentic feeling war series, showing the boredom, action, terror and camaraderie of the frontline soliders in a way that refelcts it's basis coming from the writing of the embedded Rolling Stone reporter, Evan Wright.
This show was rightly nominated for an Emmy and genuinely surpised me that a 2nd series never materialised but it's certainly well worth the watch.
Well paced and acted, I like that it's confused in places and doesn't feel the need to fill in loads of blanks about "the mission" - this is how the army is. Piecemeal. Confused. Reactive.
The language is in places offensive but authentic (they're frontline soldiers in a warzone, not office workers or school teachers), the characters and their protrayal of their vulnerabilities and weaknesses is accurate and the battle scenes, while a little cheesy, are very good too.
James Ransone and Billy Lush are brilliant as Corporal Person and Lance Corporal Trombly and Alexander Skarsgard oozes class as Sergeant "Iceman" Colbert but the whole supporting cast is well done and no-one feels superflous.
This is a well paced and very authentic feeling war series, showing the boredom, action, terror and camaraderie of the frontline soliders in a way that refelcts it's basis coming from the writing of the embedded Rolling Stone reporter, Evan Wright.
This show was rightly nominated for an Emmy and genuinely surpised me that a 2nd series never materialised but it's certainly well worth the watch.