7/10
Interesting but has issues
17 November 2018
I'm only three episodes in but have found it overall fairly good. Like the maps/diagrams of the action they're talking about. Bit over the top jingoistic and schmaltzy but given the subject material and it's made for an American audience that's to be expected. Could probably shave about 15-20 mins off the episodes I've seen. Namely all the post action bits. Some dubious production values. The two WWII episodes I've watched were obviously filmed in the same locale even though one was supposed to be in Italy and the other Germany. Can just get away with it with the Italian episode but Germany is green with pine forests etc not brown and dry. What caused me to write this review (my first) was a picture used in the 3rd episode purportedly showing some WWII German soldiers in a trench waiting to defend the crossing of the Rhine. Yes they were German but they had AK47s and helmets of the GDR (the communist East German) so the pic was probably 20 years post WWII! Maybe I'm being overly critical with the previous issues but that's pretty lame.
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