Elite Marines navigate the gritty, bleak realities of the Iraq invasion, as a reporter documents their earnest, measured advance.
A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating. Based on a book.
Streaming on Max.
It stays inside its TV-MA, with moderate sex and nudity, and brutal violence.
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The first 40 days of the war in Iraq as seen through the eyes of an elite group of U.S. Marines who spearheaded the invasion along with an embedded Rolling Stone reporter. A vivid account of the soldiers and of the forces that guided them in an often-improvised initiative.
It leaves things open rather than tying them up.
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