I'm watching it tonight!

My father and other WW2 vets in my family all said that it was as c!ose to real service !I've that they ever read.

I also liked the 1970 movie with Alan Armin.

I may have to briefly get Hulu to see it

RESIST!

I watched the movie which was a satire, long ago.

This series was serious. It wasn’t funny, except in small bits.

I didn’t read the book, so I do not know whether the movie or the series was more faithful to the book.

A long time ago I watched the movie, and it’s absurd take, and I thought it funny.

The series wasn’t that so much. It was absurd in the way generals are so willing to pump out lives, but it wasn’t funny. It was damning.

I read the book so long ago I can't comment a lot, but this series clearly cut down the massive amount of characters (to about 15 main named characters) and the sometimes confusing time jumps--Clooney made this almost totally linear. When characters "drop" off their ultimate fates are frequently assumed and that feels a little frustrating for the viewer..e.g, Hugh Laurie's character in episode 3 and crews of at least one plane that vanishes.

The dark reality of war for these bombardiers and the gore resulting was not gratuitous but necessary, I think. Still, expect to see some realism.

The idiocy of the chain of command and the callous abuse of the forces in the name of self-promotion and self-glory comes through. Milo's mercenary "capitalism" is dealt with as "relief" from the starker tragedies occurring all around. They sort of give him a pass for what is rather horrendous war-profiteering though.

I won't point to any detailed scenes in the series until others watch it so not to engage in "spoilers", but I think the series was well made, given how difficult the book was to adapt.

I thought it was well done. A bit different from the movie, but I liked that it was in series form to make it easier to digest. One thing I missed that was in both the book and the movie was that they never talked about Orr putting crabapples in his cheeks. I know it's minor, but I thought it was an interesting character development tool to make Orr look a little nuts. The Orr in the series wasn't portrayed as much as being a nutty thrill seeker, which I thought would be nice.