Day 17 of 30 Days of TV Shows

[daveamongus]

Day 17 - Favorite mini series

Okay, hands-down no brainer on this one. The only mini-series I’ve ever watched as it happened, the only one I own, and the only one (obviously) I’ll rewatch at the drop of a hat:

Lonesome Dove.

Ha! Just kidding. What I meant to say was Band of Brothers. The series aired on HBO in late 2001, which was a very

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Band of Brothers

[jeffreyab]

I am going to have to rewatch Episode 1 for Simon Pegg now.

I think the best news about the show was finding out that the soldier that Spears makes his already dead speech to, who dies in the series, actually survived to have a long career in the military.

I also like touches such as how the colour palette changes as the war goes on from warm reds to bleak whites to paler colours near the end.

I also liked the St. Foy episode where Carwood Lipton has to try and hold it all together for Easy in the face of adversity.

Re: Band of Brothers

[daveamongus]

Yeah, one of those weird odd little errors. I wonder if the production team had known the truth about Blithe, how they might have done that episode differently.

And yeah, "Breaking Point" is the Foy episode. And I love it for the focus on Lipton and for the sequence where Spiers takes command of the company from Dike.