HBO’s head-spinning Vietnam War-era drama, based on the Pulitzer-winning novel, chokes on its many ambitions.
From split allegiances and fractured lineages to tensions between truths and lies, reality and fantasy, capitalism and communism, and war and peace, dualities run rampant in. Internal and external tug-of-wars are the order of the day, as are people who’re multiple things at once, and that’s not even referring to the fact that the series co-stars recent Oscar winnerin four separate roles.
“All wars are fought twice. The first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory,” states the opening of, and it’s not the final time that the series partakes in heavy-handed statements of theme. In winter 1975, four months before the fall of Saigon, Captain and Claude meet in front of a Charles Bronson marquee painting.
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