Should you watch Generation Kill?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Generation Kill
Series · 2008
The first 40 days of the war in Iraq as seen through the eyes of an elite group of U.S. Marines who spearheaded the invasion along with an embedded Rolling Stone reporter. A vivid account of the soldiers and of the forces that guided them in an often-improvised initiative.
The sides of Generation Kill
- Marines of a recon battalion in Humvees
- A Rolling Stone reporter riding along
- The first weeks of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Generation Kill is good for you if…
- you want a war story about how soldiers live, not about heroes.
- you like a series built on a reporter's account of real Marines.
- you like soldiers' crude banter inside a Humvee.
Generation Kill is bad for you if…
- you can't watch civilians being killed by mistake.
- you lose track of a large cast of Marines in the same uniform.
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