I was talking to someone about Generation Kill last night. They’d never heard of it. It suprises me that so few people seem to have, even after it got a terrestrial tv airing on Channel 4. Especially since The Wire seemed to spread rapidly through word of mouth, that and The Guardian, who still keep banging on about it even to this day. We get it, it was a great tv show, quite possibly the best ever. Still best not analyze it to death eh? Anyway this person loved The Wire so I recommended they give Generation Kill a try.
Never heard of Generation Kill?
Well its another winner from HBO, a 7 part mini series co written by David Simon and Ed Burns who were also executive producers, just like The Wire. Its based on the book Generation Kill by Evan Wright, who also had a hand in the screen adaption. Wright was a writer for Rolling Stone who was embedded with the first US Marine battalion to go into Iraq in 2003 at the start of the second Gulf War.
And that’s what Generation Kill is all about. Pretty damn good it is too. If you liked The Wire, I know, who didn’t, then you should like this too. It also features James Ransone, who played Ziggy in series 2 of The Wire. Even if you didn’t like or have never seen The Wire you should check it out. Truly good quality tv is pretty rare and if more people see good quality stuff maybe they’d make more of it. Although I know everybody will just torrent the series anyway, so there’s the rub.
All the military lingo takes a bit of getting used to, but it’ll suck you in just like The Wire did. It also features the best rendition of an Avril Lavigne song ever!
Here’s a trailer.
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