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I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I think w.r.t. HBO miniseries Band of Brothers is better.

• smacktoward 7y ago
  Eh, I'm not sure Band of Brothers holds up as well as you might think. It's really strong in episodes 2 through 6, where the core characters are all together from Normandy to Market Garden to Bastogne. But after that those core characters disperse, either by getting promoted or becoming casualties, and then from there the series just kind of fizzles out; for better or worse, in those early episodes Winters is the de facto protagonist, and once he departs the show never really manages to find another one. The later sequel The Pacific suffered from the same problem of not having a stable, interesting point-of-view character for the audience to attach themselves to, only unlike Band which starts with one and then discards him The Pacific lacks one throughout.
  • antisthenes 7y ago
    Really? I thought the last episodes were some of the strongest. They had to highlight the end of the war and the reasons for fighting it. One of the underlying points of the series was that all of them are core characters. Looking for protagonists in war is glorifying it.
• cm2187 7y ago
  Talking about HBO historical tv shows on the soviet union, one of their best production was Stalin (1992), with Robert Duvall impressive in Stalin. They did a series on historical figures in the 1990s. The one on the judge Falcone was also pretty good.