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I've seen it. When you say The writing brilliantly encapsulates the personal, the social and the political story. I want to say the same for the series, except for the political part. There's not much dialog on it--the series takes place over basically one week, so there wasn't much time-- but eventually it starts dawning on the soldiers that the war is sort of fucked up when they start discovering non-iraqis fighting them, but beyond that not so much.
My roommate, who served in the Marines for a little while before getting booted for never doing what someone told him to do, said that it was a pretty accurate picture of life in the Marines. Most notable of his comments, to me, concerns what he viewed as one of if not the worst part of being in the Marines: you're trapped with a bunch of guys and most of them are stupid or violent or both (my roommate, by the way, is one or more of those things at all times and he still couldn't stand life in the Corps).
It looks nice, at least. What little violence found in the series is graphic and occasionally shocking, and the aftermath of war shown in all its gory details. But there's humor too, and I would recommend it I think. |
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