Series · CBS · 1972
Pass it on
M*A*S*H
50Watch it awake.
Stay for the surgery, but do not let the show teach you that earnestness is the joke.
The review
The film's surgeons became a series and stayed eleven years, long enough that the war on screen outlasted the war. The work is still the operating tent. People come in badly hurt and the doctors do the job, which is more actual labor than most television bothers to film. A huge share of the country stopped for the finale in 1983.
The jokes still punish the earnest. Later seasons let grief in, and that is better than the early sneer, but the habit of the camp is to make a fool of anyone who thinks the work means more than the next line. You can watch it for the tent. Just notice who had to be the joke so the room could feel free.
Journal
Keep M*A*S*H in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety and Temperance and Stewardship 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
Gilmore Girls
61 instead of 50
Gilmore Girls is still a comedy show, and it scores 61 instead of 50. What you gain is household: A mother and a daughter who eat together every night.
The eight
- 8Industry
The operating tent is the real work, and it stays the center for eleven years.
- 3Household
No marriage or child is the life here; the series lives in the camp and the tent.
- 3Piety
The jokes punish the earnest, including anyone who still thinks the war lays a claim.
- 7Courage
The surgeons stay at the work while the war keeps sending them people they can lose.
- 6Republic
They owe the wounded in the tent, even when the army around them is played for laughs.
- 4Temperance
The next wisecrack is the habit, and later grief never fully breaks it.
- 5Truth
Later seasons admit the grief, but the camp still prefers a joke to a straight answer.
- 4Stewardship
The war on screen outlasted the war, and the country was left holding the laugh.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · M*A*S*H · 50IMDb
