Overview

• Netflix released the eight-episode series on Oct. 9.
• The adaptation draws from Greg Cope White’s memoir The Pink Marine but relocates the story to 1990, before “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
• Miles Heizer leads as closeted recruit Cameron Cope, with Liam Oh as his best friend and Vera Farmiga as his mother.
• White contributed directly, including writing episode four, while Marine veterans joined the writers’ room and active-duty advisors worked on set.
• Early reviews, including USA TODAY’s, describe a warm, funny dramedy that balances boot-camp grit with emotional depth.