HBO Generation Kill

The Wire has now ended . . . and John Adams despite being entertaining is no Rome or Deadwood. Now HBO has just advertised an encore presentation of the final 8 Sopranos episodes. Wasn't that a year ago?! And wasn't it not all that good? Anyway. It seems the network I have grown to love has been losing more than it is gaining.

Giving us more 1/2 hour shows of varying quality, like Entourage and In Treatment and less of the epics we have grown to love. Don’t hold your breath waiting for a Deadwood movie. Then they quietly announced they had canceled their longest running show -- Inside the NFL. We are still waiting for the Spielberg/Hanks sequel to the epic WWII drama Band of Brothers.

Thankfully someone at HBO has found a good book and has turned it into a miniseries. (See past posts for references about turning books into movies) Generation Kill: is a book by embedded journalist Evan Wright of Rolling Stone. The series will be 7 episodes and is “inspired” by true stories of marines fighting in Iraq in 2003.

Sound interesting? Wait there is more. Remember that show The Wire? Well David Simon and Ed Burns both writers and producers of that show are deeply involved in Generation Kill. The show will start in July. In the meantime enjoy John Adams, and Soprano reruns.

Generation Kill (2008) Miniseries Trailer - HBO

*The image above is the cover of the book. A book I might try to read before July to make a better judgment of the show.

~Seth Davis