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Generation Kill (TV Miniseries)

HBO Classics

Generation Kill

2008

David Simon (Creator), Simon Cellan Jones ...

Alexander Skarsgård, James Ransone, Lee Tergesen, Billy Lush ...

7.5

9,048

TV Series. War. Drama TV Mini-Series (2008). 7 Episodes. From the creator of 'The Wire' comes 'Generation Kill', based on the award-winning book by Evan Wright. This seven-part miniseries is the true story of the young Marines of the First Recon Battalion and their experience at the onset of the Iraq War.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Sarah Hughes The Guardian	"The best Iraq war drama by some distance (...) One of the year's most powerful dramas"	POS
United States	Tom Shales The Washington Post	"A grippingly powerful HBO miniseries (...) 'Generation Kill' brings the world of the soldiers to vividly detailed life"	POS
United States	Alessandra Stanley The New York Times	"[It] avoids cheesy cinematic clichés (...) 'Generation Kill', which has a superb cast and script, provides a searingly intense, clear-eyed look at the first stage of the war, and it is often gripping."	POS
United States	Brian Lowry Variety	"HBO nails the target with 'Generation Kill' - a raw, gritty, so-real-you'll-forget-it's-drama miniseries (...) [It] offers a chance to see those troops in their full, unfettered, foul-mouthed glory"	POS
United States	Troy Patterson Slate	"The characters here, more often than not, amount to cretinous psychopaths (...) The gunfights can feel disorienting in a way that communicates the chaos on the ground but also incoherent and perfunctory"	NEG
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"One of the amazing things about 'Generation Kill' is the timeframe"	POS
United States	Ray Richmond The Hollywood Reporter	"An unsettling, distinctive, utterly riveting seven-part miniseries that captures the surrealistic nuts and bolts of launching a war better than any project in recent memory."	POS
United Kingdom	Telegraph	"This flawlessly acted show gives an unflinching and honest impression of what it's like to be in the front line."	POS
United States	The New Yorker	"It has too many characters for the writers to be able to do more than create thumbnail sketches (...) There is very little in 'Generation Kill' to distinguish it from other war-is-hell dramas"	NEG
United Kingdom	Nev Pierce Empire	"'Generation Kill' is essential (...) War a mixture of the mundane and the horrifying, with even the bleakest situations shot through with black humour (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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