My star rating for this is based, primarily, on how much I’m enjoying this new Play-Tone mini-series, from the Hanks, Spielberg and Goetzman team that brought us Band, Pacific, and other superb WWII media.
It’s taking me longer to warm to the cast than it did with Brothers and Pacific. But I’m starting to thaw on that front. But everything else, and most especially the lengths to which the production crew go to bring this story to life, is terrific.
I’ve grudgingly taken out an £8.99 p/month Apple TV sub, just so’s I can watch this as it comes out. I resent having to do so. But hey-ho. Buy any beans necessary, as the Vegan Anarchist Front might say…
Tonight I watched episode three, and already we’ve seen characters built up just to be killed off. But the the ‘Bloody Hundredth’ did earn that soubriquet with an eye-watering loss of life.
For tonight’s post this is merely to register the fact I’m watching the series, and loving it. I’ll prob either expand this post, or add more on the topic, as the episodes drop. We shall see?
But for now? Yep… loving it.
Oh, and it was based, it would seem, on this book:
Watching Pvt. Ryan lead to me reading a Stephen Ambrose book on D-Day. And viewing The Pacific was a prelude to reading With The Old Breed and Helmut Fur Mein Furher… er, I mean… Well, you see where I’m going with that?