Generation Kill episode #07 “Bomb in the Garden” review
August 26, 2008 · Print This Article
A great mini-series of television came to a slow end tonight with GENERATION KILL #07 “Bomb in the Garden.” This season of television was the best since the 4th season of THE WIRE, whose season finale also had a very slow and differing in tone from all previous eps feel to it. This is not surprising since the same writers and producers were at the helm of GENERATION KILL as well. Regardless, I am very sad to be unable to spend more time with these characters. I wish we could have seen more missions.
What was really lacking from this mini-series finale was gravity, and by that I mean specifically there were no deaths or even significant injuries at all to any member of the entire Hitman platoon. They got in and out of Iraq unscathed. What the finale did show, however, was exactly how scathed Iraq as a country and the Iraqi people did get after just 21 days of major combat operations, after which major combat was ended (obviously it turned out to be only temporary).
What I will remember from this series is all the great dialogue and military vocabulary, the great cinematography, and most of all the intense, vicarious feeling of fear I shared with the men in the humvees during both the battles scenes and the night patrol scenes.
This is television not to be missed.
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