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Series · History · 2011

Vietnam in HD

Vietnam in HD

55Watch it awake.

The footage is not a speech. The war is not given a tidy ending. Adults. That refusal is correct.

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The review

The companion to WWII in HD, and a harder one, because the country has not agreed on the story. Color footage and interviews carry a war that lasted longer than a home front can remember cleanly. The series is still a television hour. It still cues the music. It does not, to its credit, end by telling you the war was secretly glorious or secretly simple.

Adults and mature teens. Pair it with a veteran in the room if you have one, and let him disagree with the cut. The footage is not a substitute for the person. It is a way to stop the conversation from being only movies about lieutenants.

Journal

Keep Vietnam in HD in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

  1. 6Industry
  2. 5Household
  3. 3Piety
  4. 6Courage
  5. 6Republic
  6. 5Temperance
  7. 7Truth
  8. 6Stewardship

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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

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The Pacific

66 instead of 55

The Pacific is still a war show, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is industry: The campaigns are work: disease, supply, a ridge, a landing.

The eight

  1. 6
    Industry

    Patrols, helicopters, hospitals. The work is visible.

  2. 5
    Household

    Letters and returns. The household is in the voices more than in a scene.

  3. 3
    Piety

    Little liturgy. The series is wary of anthem.

  4. 6
    Courage

    Specific acts of nerve, told by the people who did them, beside specific acts of waste.

  5. 6
    Republic

    A war a republic argued about in its own living rooms. The series does not pretend the argument was simple.

  6. 5
    Temperance

    The same History Channel habits: music, a shape to the hour.

  7. 7
    Truth

    First-person voices and the record. Not a feature film's arrangement.

  8. 6
    Stewardship

    What it leaves is the argument, still open, which is more honest than a verdict set to a drum.

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If a veteran will talk, let his correction outrank the episode.

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Series · CBS · 1964

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

55Watch it awake.

Near the top of the ratings for years. Kindness is the joke, and the joke does not turn mean.

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The review

He joins the Marines because a friend recruited him, and he is exactly wrong for the shouting until the shouting fails to change him. The sergeant is not a villain. He has a job, which is to make men who will hold together, and the show lets the job be real even while Gomer dismantles it by being decent. For several seasons this was one of the most watched half hours in the country. People came for the voice. The voice is not the value.

The value is a man who will not purchase belonging by being cruel, and a barracks that slowly makes room for him. It is slight. It is also cleaner than most of the comedies around it. A child can sit through it. Ask afterward whether the sergeant was wrong about the work or wrong about the man. Both answers are partly there, which is more than a catchphrase show usually manages.

Journal

Keep Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

  1. 6Industry
  2. 5Household
  3. 4Piety
  4. 5Courage
  5. 5Republic
  6. 7Temperance
  7. 6Truth
  8. 6Stewardship

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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

Consider this

The Honeymooners

68 instead of 55

The Honeymooners is still a comedy show, and it scores 68 instead of 55. What you gain is household: The marriage is the life, and Alice is the adult who keeps it.

The eight

  1. 6
    Industry

    Drill is the work, and the show respects the sergeant's job even while it mocks the volume.

  2. 5
    Household

    No wife and no children. The barracks becomes a household he keeps treating as one.

  3. 4
    Piety

    He will not humiliate a man. That refusal is as close as the show comes to reverence.

  4. 5
    Courage

    He takes the yelling and stays, which is a small courage the show does not oversell.

  5. 5
    Republic

    A base is a public. He owes the men next to him more than a laugh at them.

  6. 7
    Temperance

    The excess on offer is kindness, and the show does not punish him for it by the end.

  7. 6
    Truth

    He is not secretly clever in a cruel way. What you see is what he is.

  8. 6
    Stewardship

    A child can watch a man refuse to become the room, and that is a usable picture.

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Ask whether the sergeant's job was wrong, or only his measure of the man.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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