Okay, it’s weird for me to be reviewing a television series, but I just had to. I got the entire Band of Brother HBO miniseries, and I loved ever minute of it…all 10 hours of it. And I watched six of those ten hours in one sitting…

This will no doubt be the shortest review on my website, because there isn’t much to say that hasn’t already been said. It’s beautiful, it’s intense, it’s heart-breaking, and it has spectacular action scenes that don’t skimp on the realism and brutality of war. But it’s not like an action movie…you don’t hoot and holler at the TV screen, you don’t pull up a bucket of popcorn. It affects you, because it happened. WW2 was the biggest war in history, and we all know veterans who participated in it. That’s what makes this show so meaningful, and striking.

To think that these men, who were all real men, most of whom are still alive to tell their tale, were so brave and so tough. They’ve been through Hell and back to defend the life they knew and loved, and without them, the world might be quite a different place.

The acting was all superb. I really can’t think of a bad actor in this series, and it surprises me that some of the lesser known actors haven’t gotten more work after. All the scenery and sets were amazing, the music was emotional and perfectly reflective of the atmosphere. It was also nice that there was never any music during any of the battle scenes, which made it all the more intense. I also appreciated that, for the most part, CG was only used for scenes of thousands of planes flying in the sky. Other than that, it’s all honest-to-goodness special effects and real explosions. This series had the biggest budget of any television series ever made, and it shows. It boggles my mind thinking about the trouble they must have had to go through getting replicas of all the period tanks, armoured transports, jeeps, weapons, uniforms, etc. This is the most epic spectacle I’ve ever seen on my television screen that was not a film with a 500 million dollar budget.

But what’s most important of all, is that the ending is simply beautiful. It made my eyes tear, and that’s not easy. But the only way I can express this to you is if you see the last few moments, of the veterans upon whom all the characters were based on, doing interviews.

Simply beautiful…and if you watch that without getting a tear in your eye, you can’t possibly have a heart. For anyone who has known a veteran or is related to one, Remembrance Day never ends.

That is why this is, bar-none, THE best television series ever made.

And with that, I leave you with the famous quote, lest we forget:

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

For he to-day that sheds his blood with me

Shall be my brother”