While waiting to greet their soldier brother, back from Afghanistan. We're talking about soldiers walking around in public with blouses unzipped and no headgear in sight. Seriously, we're not talking about missing Reflective Safety Belts. There's a shaggy-dog-story twist, but it's probably still not enough to make up for the behavioral problems, technical errors, and uniform infractions breezily depicted in the pilot. The plot of the pilot feels similar to those of "Stripes" (1981) or "Major Payne" (1995): A ragtag group of nerds, ne'er-do-wells, and screw-ups decides to play by its own rules to disrupt an antagonist's prized war games. Snarky middle-brother Derrick Hill ( Chris Lowell) joined the Army just to look out for the youngest of the three, the energetic but often wildly inaccurate and inappropriate Randy Hill ( Parker Young). Infantry soldier Pete Hill ( Geoff Stults) got kicked to the rear after punching a TOC-roach field-grade in the face while downrange in Afghanistan. The story follows three biological brothers assigned to the same rear-detachment unit, the fictional 18th Infantry Division at the equally fictional Fort McGee (aka "Fort McGeezer"), Fla. The original teaser trailer is posted below, and at this YouTube link.
#Enlisted game review tv#
The official website for the "Enlisted" TV show is here. I'm embarrassed we got some technical stuff wrong in the pilot, but I think you'll see we course-corrected and got squared away very quickly. Both because it's the right thing to do, and because its my duty to be respectful to the men and women who do this job. We have to write about those things, they have to be part of this world. I don't believe you can do a show about the military in 2014 and not deal with things like PTSD or losing a loved one. In press materials, show creator Kevin Biegel writes: And that's too bad, because some of its producers are pursuing surprisingly noble purposes, as well as few laughs.
If things like lack of proper haircuts, headgear, uniform, and military bearing drive you the bad kind of crazy, you probably won't get past the pilot. The Fox TV Network sitcom "Enlisted" debuts this Fri, Jan. Mike Test: "If you're not laughing with us, you're laughing against us." That's when I realized that, when less than 1 percent of a society's population serves in the military, the whole thing regarding the difference between "laughing with" and "laughing at" takes on orders of magnitude.Įnter the Sgt. They hated it with a passion like Thermite. Many of my Army buddies and Facebook friends, however, took it personally.
#Enlisted game review series#
Last summer, I had a similar experience when I posted via social media the official teaser to the TV series "Enlisted." I'd been hungry for a new ration of military comedy, and I thought it looked promising. "It made us all look like a bunch of fools."
I figured "Three Kings" was right up his A-frame. Mike had been in Iraq, after he'd enlisted into the active-duty Army. Set during the Gulf War, it's an eclectic mix between a war and bank heist movie-sort of an updated "Kelly's Heroes" (1970).
#Enlisted game review movie#
Mike his opinion of "Three Kings" (1999), a favorite movie of mine. The team also liked to listen to NASCAR races on the radio, and to call up absent team members to play "what's that smell?" A good sense of humor will get you through a lot a shared appreciation of absurdity will get you through even more. We had a crusty section sergeant who had come up through the field artillery, who made us watch "MASH" (1970) as an annual training film. Back before the wars-it was the 1990s-I was part of a great team of Army communications soldiers working in an Iowa National Guard engineer unit.
0 kommentar(er)
