Overview
- The HBO miniseries Generation Kill began streaming on NOW TV on Thursday, prompting renewed coverage and social-media attention from UK outlets.
- Reviewers and audiences praise the show for its raw realism, dark gallows humour and moral ambiguity, with many comparing it to Band of Brothers and The Pacific.
- Generation Kill is adapted from Evan Wright’s 2004 Rolling Stone reporting and was developed for TV by David Simon and Ed Burns.
- The series embeds viewers with the US Marines' 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the opening days of the 2003 invasion and focuses on life inside Humvees to show the chaos and ethical uncertainty of modern combat.
- Making the series easier to stream gives new viewers access to its breakout performances, including Alexander Skarsgård’s early role, and is likely to renew debate about how television depicts real-world wars and military experience.