Review – The Pacific

If I was a Marine who served in the title location during World War Two, this follow-up to HBO’s Band of Brothers would really piss me off. The 101st Airborne got a nostalgic miniseries that would have seemed right at home back in the 1940s. This one, on the other hand, plays as half home front (or extended leave) soap opera and half jungle-war-is-hell-themed mayhem more closely akin to Hollywood depictions of the Vietnam War. Given the even split between brutal, bewildering combat and mooning over girlfriends, I can’t imagine who the target audience for this might be. Frankly, I found the whole thing a frustrating, unworthy follow-up to its ETO predecessor. See if desperate