
This gritty seven-part miniseries chronicles the befuddling first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines' First Recon Batallion As the soldiers journey into Baghdad they face unclear conditions & bear the often deadly brunt of misguided bureaucratic decisions Based on Evan Wright's best-selling book & brought to the screen by the creators of THE WIRE--David Simon & Ed Burns--GENERATION KILL's viewpoint remains firmly fixed on the ground level; rather than proselytize the show uses its large cast & broad canvas to show war in all its visceral chaos allowing viewers the chance to take what they can from steeping themselves in the black humour & confused terror of the experience