Genre: TV Series
Grade: B+/B
Notable People: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Sela, Ashton Holmes, Josh Helman, Created by: Bruce McKenna
Title: The Pacific
Review This mini series is a companion piece to the highly awarded HBO 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, but is focused on the much lesser known Pacific theater (interesting r?) of WWII. The sheer brutally of the endless battles from Iwo Jima to Okinawa through a hundred tiny and remote islands is staggering. The story is derived from the post-war books written by two of the three main characters and is generally a true story. The endless battle scenes can be bit much at times- very realistic and you feel like you are there dodging pieces of flying human flesh. The back stories are more accessible. Well done, well shot, and very informative- the utter horror of this war makes for more sympathy of why we dropped the bomb.