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Series · HBO · 2010

The Pacific

The Pacific

66Worth an evening.

The cost on the men, not a victory lap. The best series on this shelf beside Band of Brothers. Adults.

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The review

HBO followed Band of Brothers with the war those men were not in. Eugene Sledge, Robert Leckie, and John Basilone carry the series through Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. It is less interested in a company's camaraderie as a pleasure and more interested in what the fighting does to a mind. The last episodes, home, are the ones a house should not skip.

Adults. It is the companion to Band of Brothers and it is sterner. If you only have appetite for one, and the question is what the war cost the living, choose this. Do not watch it as a tour of battles. Watch who is left at the table when it is over, and what he can and cannot say.

Journal

Keep The Pacific in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Temperance is the thin one.

  1. 8Industry
  2. 6Household
  3. 5Piety
  4. 8Courage
  5. 6Republic
  6. 4Temperance
  7. 8Truth
  8. 8Stewardship

Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Shogun

78 instead of 66

Shogun is still a drama show, and it scores 78 instead of 66. What you gain is temperance: Violence is grave.

The eight

  1. 8
    Industry

    The campaigns are work: disease, supply, a ridge, a landing.

  2. 6
    Household

    Homecoming is a chapter, not a caption. The house has to receive what the island made.

  3. 5
    Piety

    Men pray, break, and go on. Faith is not the solution the series sells.

  4. 8
    Courage

    The courage is staying in a war of islands that does not feel like progress.

  5. 6
    Republic

    A country is asking for a kind of fighting it will not want described later.

  6. 4
    Temperance

    It is as hard as the war it is filming. That is not a thrill.

  7. 8
    Truth

    Drawn from the memoirs of men who were there. The misery is not a style.

  8. 8
    Stewardship

    What it hands on is the homecoming, which most war pictures treat as the credits.

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Watch the episode where he comes home, not only the landing.

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Series · NBC · 1971

Columbo

Columbo

66Worth an evening.

A good mystery for a house: you know who did it, and the lie still has to pay.

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The review

The murder is shown up front, so nobody on the couch has to play genius. Lieutenant Columbo already understands. What follows is one more question for a killer who has money and certainty, two things the lieutenant does not. The work is attention. Gore is not the point. The lie is.

That is a good shape for a house that wants a mystery. The rich, sure person does not get to keep the story he arrived with. A child old enough for a killing discussed, not displayed, can watch a man do a job carefully and not be asked to enjoy the cruelty. The neat explanation fails. That failure is the pleasure, and it does not need blood to land.

Journal

Keep Columbo in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

  1. 8Industry
  2. 2Household
  3. 6Piety
  4. 5Courage
  5. 8Republic
  6. 8Temperance
  7. 9Truth
  8. 7Stewardship

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Below

78 instead of 66

Below is still a mystery show, and it scores 78 instead of 66. What you gain is household: A stubborn father who will not hand his son to the dark.

The eight

  1. 8
    Industry

    The lieutenant's work is attention, and one more question is the whole of the plot.

  2. 2
    Household

    The hour belongs to the case, not to a marriage, a parent, or a child at home.

  3. 6
    Piety

    He does not force the confession; he waits until the killer's own story fails.

  4. 5
    Courage

    He walks, without rank or money, into rooms whose owners expect him to leave.

  5. 8
    Republic

    The rich and sure still owe the law, and a rumpled lieutenant is sent to collect.

  6. 8
    Temperance

    Gore is not the point, so the hour never teaches you to want the killing.

  7. 9
    Truth

    You see the murder done, then you watch the lie run up a bill it cannot pay.

  8. 7
    Stewardship

    The city keeps a case where money could not buy the ending or shrug off the dead.

Live historically

Watch one case and practice his extra question the next time someone hands you a neat story.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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The next title is the one nearest what this house keeps, then the measure where it is thin. Nothing here is a crowd. It does not leave this device.

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