Unbelivable how high the rating is on this show
This is one of the most terrible tv-shows portraying war I've seen. The script, acting, environment and so on. And even the camera shooting was horrible! What were they thinking when filming half the face close up in a scene between a officer and a wife to one of the returning soldiers, to get her checks. And one episode that disturbed me alot was the one with the orphanage. "The iraq government" has decided that the orphanage have to evicted. It starts out with the american soldiers arriving and a kid with what most people would recognize as a box with a chess game, of course they have to take security precaution but then the scene goes so exadurating that you wanna cry. The camera zooms in on all soldiers and shakes around making it look like a old showdown from a western movie. Terrible. Then to make it worse, they send in a horrible actor portraying some french worker fighting for her cause with her orphanage. Very touching but not convincing. Then when the americans fire upon the suspicous box after the kid drops it (why they would do such a dangerous thing in the first place) all the pieces of the chess board fly around lying themselves symbolically on the ground, oh the horrors of war! Destroying the very one thing that had a meaning for that poor kid. Sure I feel for them, but again its not convincing. And to stir things up with the political part, its alomst so you wanna puke. The bad actress playing the french woman starts hammering the american squad leader with things like: "Everee time yu emerikans get en idea...!" Oh please. And of course, to lift off somne of the focus on the americans, the writers thought that "the iraq government" decided to evict the orphanage, oh you mean iraq government! Hoe convenient. And to get back to the debate with the french woman, the squad leader throws out this: "You of all should know how to collaberate" And the lady says nothing! What the hell? Yeah that is so true, a woman in her 30's, not even born during WW2 should feel guilt and know everything about collaborating with nazis.
Latter of the episode was so predictable it hurts. And to add up something more, the enviroments looked like they come from the middle ages! Gee, not even in a trouble country like Iraq are circumstainces so poor. American rightwing-populism at its best...
Dont watch this show, fails utterly in many areas. If USA wants to make something more convicning about the Iraq conflict, this is not it.
The producers of this show probably didnt even look at pics from Iraq or interviewed people that have or are participating in the conflict.