This show is fun if you like to celebrate defeat without possibility of success. The entire army was portrayed as lusting for war but totally incompetent. They were never portrayed as professional, thoughtful, passionate, patriotic, etc...
The main character is a cork floating down the river, metaphorically. She is always subjected to the insanity of war, since it is depicted as something that is inconvenient to her. (mind: blown)
She goes through VC tunnels that are really scary, and magically comes up pretty close to her own base... wow, the metaphor, so subtle.
She goes home on leave, and while having whiskey with her breakfast takes the time out to enjoy the snap-crackle-pop of milk on her Rice Crispies. Epic storytelling, right?
This show wasn't MASH. It's not Tour of Duty. It's more like 1990 sensibilities were somehow placed in 1968 people, and there is the turnoff: when Vietnam was being discussed, people who were in favor of the war and people who were against it were all good people.
China Beach oversimplifies everything as either good or bad. Yawn.
She goes home on leave, and while having whiskey with her breakfast takes the time out to enjoy the snap-crackle-pop of milk on her Rice Crispies. Epic storytelling, right?
This show wasn't MASH. It's not Tour of Duty. It's more like 1990 sensibilities were somehow placed in 1968 people, and there is the turnoff: when Vietnam was being discussed, people who were in favor of the war and people who were against it were all good people.
China Beach oversimplifies everything as either good or bad. Yawn.