Band of Brothers

For this review I thought I would review my first miniseries. The one I decided to start with is Band of Brothers. Before I saw Band of Brothers I've seen war movies, but this miniseries took those movies and beat a good junk of them. It wasn't better than all the war films, but it was very close.

Band of Brothers is the true story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division in WWII Europe. It follows Easy Company from training to the end of the war. The miniseries premiered on HBO which means they were allowed to show the war violence and gore of war; and executive produced by Tom Hanks and by Steven Spielberg.

Band of Brothers has many known actors such as: Damien Lewis, who is in the series Homeland, Scott Grimes, who is in the series American Dad, Ron Livingston, who has been in films like Swingers and Office Space, Donnie Wahlberg, who is in the series Blue Bloods, and Michael Cudlitz, who was in the series Southland. These are just to name a few of the known actors in this miniseries.

The one thing that made this series very interesting, other than the violence/gore, is that in the beginning of each episode they have parts of interviews of the actual live soldiers of Easy Company. Not only do you get a brief viewing of what these brave men went through, you hear it from them as well. For me it just added an extra mentality to the series. Actually seeing these men just makes the series that much better, and more real.

In the end, if you can handle massive amounts of war violence/gore, and you want a really awesome war series, Band of Brothers is the miniseries for you. My rating is if you can handle it, see this series as soon as you possibly can; it will give you more respect for our armed service men and women past, present, and future.