Produced by the same folks at HBO who brought you the brilliant World War II epic series Band of Brothers a few years ago, the new series The Pacific premiered on M-Net last night.
This series covers the US Marine Corps’ battles against Japan in the Pacific region during World War II. This is the point where I could immediately launch into a long-winded and drawn out diatribe on the cast, locations, plot and and and but I feel that that is unnecessary – if you enjoyed watching Band of Brothers (and quite frankly who didn’t?) then you’re going to thoroughly enjoy this new series. Simple as that.
It is top-notch, thoroughly well-made and definitely worth a look-see. I for one have now block-booked my Wednesday evenings for the next few months to see how it pans out.
There, I told you this was a brief review. Who needs pages and pages of analysis when simply stating “it’s great – watch it!” will suffice?
Want to own it?
As it has not yet finished screening over in the good ol’ US of A it is not yet available for sale, but should be shortly, and I for one will most definitely be granting it pride of place on my DVD shelf right there next to Band of Brothers and the rest of the wartime epics I possess once it is released. You can however sign up to be notified of when it is released for sale by Amazon.com in both regular DVD and Blu-ray format.
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More info available at IMDB and Wikipedia.
Catch all the episodes on M-Net – Wednesdays at 21:30.
