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11/16/2009 8:54:11 AM EDT
Anyone ever see it? I just found it on my harddrive yesterday and started watching it again. First saw it a year ago last time I was in the desert, A really good show and I was told that HBO took it off the air for apparently political reason (1 step away from actually being in the s**t) Not sure about the accuracy of that since I'm Air Force but the show seems pretty accurate.

ETA: Sorry if this is a dupe. My search-fu sucks and I can't seem to see a general section in the search dropdown
11/16/2009 9:10:32 AM EDT
[#1]
yes

quite a few people loved the show, and quite a few people hated the show.

i enjoyed it.
11/16/2009 9:30:07 AM EDT
[#2]
The book is awesome too! Not RECON myself. Accuracy all depends. I can go to the store for milk 5 mins before you and we could have night and day differences in our trip. You can only ask the guys that experienced it themself.
11/17/2009 7:35:00 AM EDT
[#3]
Quoted:
Anyone ever see it? I just found it on my harddrive yesterday and started watching it again. First saw it a year ago last time I was in the desert, A really good show and I was told that HBO took it off the air for apparently political reason (1 step away from actually being in the s**t) Not sure about the accuracy of that since I'm Air Force but the show seems pretty accurate.

ETA: Sorry if this is a dupe. My search-fu sucks and I can't seem to see a general section in the search dropdown


They took if off the air because it ended. It was just a miniseries.
11/17/2009 2:47:43 PM EDT
[#4]
I liked it.  It did get some Emmy nominations as well.
11/17/2009 3:36:14 PM EDT
[#5]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Anyone ever see it? I just found it on my harddrive yesterday and started watching it again. First saw it a year ago last time I was in the desert, A really good show and I was told that HBO took it off the air for apparently political reason (1 step away from actually being in the s**t) Not sure about the accuracy of that since I'm Air Force but the show seems pretty accurate.

ETA: Sorry if this is a dupe. My search-fu sucks and I can't seem to see a general section in the search dropdown


They took if off the air because it ended. It was just a miniseries.


i would love to see their Afghanistan stories.

11/19/2009 7:50:10 PM EDT
[#6]
I have it on DVD and rewatch it every few months.  Great series.
11/20/2009 9:03:41 AM EDT
[#7]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Anyone ever see it? I just found it on my harddrive yesterday and started watching it again. First saw it a year ago last time I was in the desert, A really good show and I was told that HBO took it off the air for apparently political reason (1 step away from actually being in the s**t) Not sure about the accuracy of that since I'm Air Force but the show seems pretty accurate.

ETA: Sorry if this is a dupe. My search-fu sucks and I can't seem to see a general section in the search dropdown


They took if off the air because it ended. It was just a miniseries.


+1, it was based on a book by the same name.  The series ended when the book ended.

I thought it was very good, and would suggest it to anybody
11/20/2009 4:20:37 PM EDT
[#8]
I'll add a vote that it was very good/exellent. It is through the prisim of a journalists point of view but I thought that they did as good a job as you are going to get at getting a sense of what the experience was like for those guys.

Plus, it is a lot of the same producers/writers from The Wire, so that's always a good size.
11/22/2009 4:53:48 PM EDT
[#9]
I was in Task Force Tarawa during the Invasion of Iraq.  Generation Kill captures my experiences almost exactly.

Great miniseries.
11/22/2009 10:14:15 PM EDT
[#10]
With HBO you never really know what you are going to get, but I liked the series enough to buy it on DVD.