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Series · HBO · 2008

Generation Kill

Name: Generation Kill scores 45 — Live Historic
Item: Generation Kill
Rating: 45
Author: Live Historic

45Watch it awake.

The truth is the confusion. Adults. The language is filthy. Do not mistake the competence for a defense of the invasion.

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The review

David Simon and Ed Burns dramatize the Rolling Stone reporter's ride with 1st Recon in the opening of the Iraq War. The officers are a mix of careful men and men who want a story to tell. The enlisted men are very good at a narrow craft and are used as if the craft were a plan. The series is funny in the way exhausted people are funny, and it is often cruel.

Adults only, and not because of the combat. Because of the talk, which a younger viewer will imitate. If you watch it, watch it as a report on the first weeks, not as a personality to borrow. The charge is to notice when an order is about someone's reputation. That noticing is the useful thing the series knows.

Journal

Keep Generation Kill in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

TURN: Washington's Spies

59 instead of 45

TURN: Washington's Spies is still a war show, and it scores 59 instead of 45. What you gain is household: Marriages and brothers split.

The eight

7
Industry
Recon work, radios, a column of vehicles. The job is shown as a job.
2
Household
Almost no home. The battalion is a loud, crude substitute.
1
Piety
Nothing is revered. The show would be embarrassed by reverence.
6
Courage
Men do brave and pointless things in the same hour. The show will not sort them into a speech.
5
Republic
An invasion run by a bureaucracy the lieutenants cannot quite believe. That is the political content.
2
Temperance
The talk is the atmosphere, and the atmosphere is pornographic and bored.
8
Truth
Evan Wright's reporting. The chaos of the first weeks is the honest subject.
5
Stewardship
What it leaves is a picture of a modern war as mismanaged competence. Useful, and not a model.

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Series · History · 2008

Battle 360

45Watch it awake.

The work of a ship is real. The series is a highlight reel. Watch one hour, not the habit.

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The review

History Channel followed one aircraft carrier through the Pacific, which is a sound way to tell a navy war: a single deck, the men who live under it, the battles that find it. Battle 360 likes the deck more than the men. Computer imagery restages the fights. Survivors speak, and then the picture goes back to the explosion.

One episode is a fair introduction to what a carrier was. The series, watched as a run, becomes a sport. If a boy is interested in the ship, good. Hand him the interest and then a plainer page about the sailors, including the ones who did not come off that hull. The hull is not the veteran. The crew is.

Journal

Keep Battle 360 in the record.