This 2001 miniseries isn’t new, but it set the benchmark for the telling of wartime tales. Created by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, it won the Emmy and Golden Globe. It follows the exploits of a WWII parachute battalion from jump training in the US to its participation in battles in Europe to the end of the war. Also watch the documentary about the real soldiers in We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company.
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Step right up, step right up. Ladies and gentlemen, or whatever you call yourselves, you are invited to witness a glorious mess, a mash-up of fantasy, Victorian flim-flammery, fabulous supernatural afflictions and much style, all baked into a witty tale of gifted women battling crusty old men.
The Nevers (starts Sunday, 9 p.m., HBO/Crave) is it and arrives with an asterisk. The asterisk is needed to note that the new series is the work of Joss Whedon, but HBO doesn’t want to say that aloud. See Whedon, generally considered a genius, the mind behind
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Ten minutes into
The Nevers, Laura Donnelly swaggers into a fight and kicks the shit out of a few undeserving males, (as Olivia Williams told
Digital Spy), followed by some snappy dialogue that includes words you have to look up in the Oxford English Dictionary.
The Nevers puts its best foot forward early on (right into a man s face) by foregrounding Amalia True as the latest kickass woman to quip and punch her way out of danger. Sound familiar? It s a fun, promising start for HBO s latest fantasy show, but then as the show progresses, what starts out as a niggling sense of déjà vu soon becomes all-consuming.
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