Great production values and acting. But just way too many side "love stories" and historical inaccuracies that bogged down what could have been a really good story line.
Without giving away too much detail, my Dad didn't bring home out first TV until 1948-'49 or so, in Chatham Township, NJ. Tiny B&W screen in a huge cabinet. The only TV station was in New York City, just for a few hours a day. No store windows full of small TVs with larger screens showing FDR giving speeches, with onlookers outraged and one throwing throwing a rock at the window, smashing it.
You won't find too many U. S. Army Air Core transport planes with USAF markings under the wings. Very unlikely that one of the two men assigned to get to the new radar station by 4 a.m. That Sunday, Dec. 7, still didn't understand how it worked and needed training from the other. And the list goes on, with all of the embellishment of side stories along the soap opera lines. And so on.
If it weren't for all of these known historical inaccuracies and contrived plots, this mini-series would have received a much higher rating.
Without giving away too much detail, my Dad didn't bring home out first TV until 1948-'49 or so, in Chatham Township, NJ. Tiny B&W screen in a huge cabinet. The only TV station was in New York City, just for a few hours a day. No store windows full of small TVs with larger screens showing FDR giving speeches, with onlookers outraged and one throwing throwing a rock at the window, smashing it.
You won't find too many U. S. Army Air Core transport planes with USAF markings under the wings. Very unlikely that one of the two men assigned to get to the new radar station by 4 a.m. That Sunday, Dec. 7, still didn't understand how it worked and needed training from the other. And the list goes on, with all of the embellishment of side stories along the soap opera lines. And so on.
If it weren't for all of these known historical inaccuracies and contrived plots, this mini-series would have received a much higher rating.