Sadly Over-hyped

Charming and brutal

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I knew people who fought in the middle east and i am incensed with the BBC for producing this outer crap it is insensitive and disgraceful to try to make a soup opera out of this ill fated conflict. this program is complete and utter rubbish it has no redeeming qualities and i am astonished they are making another season of this tripe. So the real worry for me is that there must be an audience for this mindless garbage?? surely watching paint dry must be more rewarding? meanwhile the BBC continues its downward spiral into mediocrity Please can someone save the BBC ? the first thing new leadership should do is sack the people behind this rubbish

It starts off in a dysfunctional cockney family in London, where our heroine is busy living La Vida Loca. Once she sobers up she decides to join the Army as a medic and despite showing little or no aptitude she ends up in Afghanistan with Ramsay Bolton (kinder of John?) and proceeds to dis him in favor of much more handsome Captain Charles. A mouthy cockney she seems never to shut up and saves her most strident comments while on maneuvers, and her "romance is in the air" comments while in a fire fight. Oblivious to local customs she stirs up a Taliban hornet's nest and spends the last 2 episodes apologizing. But no fear her Captain has a beautiful manse in Bath and that's where our story part 1 ends.

This review does contain spoilers. As a member of a western military, there are a few things about this that does make me cringe. It is not the worst series I have seen and there are periods where the plot, characters, scenery, and action are quite good. 1. There is no way a Corporal would stand for back chat from a recruit. 2. There is no way they would be allowed their mobile phones by their bed during recruit training. 3. If I was the platoon commander I would have ditched her half way through episode two as she is a liability. Never do you just wander off on a patrol. Never do you allow local civilians to walk straight up to you, regardless of age. 4. Not one of them has any form of eye protection. As a veteran of Afghanistan you are issued with ballistic glasses with changeable lenses. Tinted for day, clear or yellow for night. Every time you step outside the wire, they are on. This does not include the ballistic goggles on your helmet. 5. The closest distance any reasonable soldier would be to a suicide vest is 100 to 200 meters. There is a cordon and everyone inside is evacuated. As for the lovers tiff in front of an IED, that's something else.

It is a quality series in many ways and I especially enjoyed the first half of this series. I loved the main star Molly and for the first few episodes could not wait for the next week's episode. Then the writer must of gone on holiday and for me the series took a dive down as a Dad's army version of the army took over.Don't read on if you don't want a spoiler.It belied belief that two professional trained soldiers (different sex) in Afghanistan would be having a lovers tiff as they approached a possible IED watched by their men during routine patrol in hostile territory.In case this Dad's Army theme got missed there was then a three way lovers tiff in the middle of a combat operation as the platoon examined a truck potentially full of the enemy.O man!!!