68 Whiskey

I'm a teacher. Not long ago, I watched the movie Fist Fight. It was full of inaccuracies regarding education, but you know what...it was still pretty funny. M*A*S*H came out roughly 20 years after the Korean Conflict. I'm sure that plenty of veterans sat and watched that show and cursed how unreal it was. Americans loved it. Here we are sitting on 17 years in Afghanistan and we haven't once had anything to watch that even attempted to capture any range of emotions surrounding our involvement there. 68 Whiskey at least makes an effort...and even succeeded to a certain degree in the first episode. I laughed audibly at a few parts and was interested in the story. If it's inaccurate...I don't really care. I'm not a soldier. I'm a viewer.

I spent a year in Kandahar and, while I wasn't involved in combat, I was deeply connected with Afghan people at the time. I enjoyed that they presented them as educated and not all backwards jihadis worthy of only target practice. The even spoke Pashto correctly from the little I remember.

While there may be a great deal that is not realistic about the theater of war involved in the production of this, I really don't think most Americans care. We need a show that can take the piss a little about our unjust involvement in the region and this show looks promising for that if nothing else.

68 Whiskey is Based on the Israeli television series Charlie Golf One, and Bluestone 42 was a BBC television series ( bomb disposal ) 68W & B42 & CG1 are just meant to be funny not accurate I see a lot on all the shows that are wrong just let to go I am a 18 bravo and if I can let it go so can you and just in joy the show 68W is a fair show Bluestone 42 was great (3 season) Charlie Golf One was good to if you can get english sub titles (1 season 40 Ep)

I love this show. It is irreverent, funny, sweet and very much like a re-boot of MASH There is quite a lot of satire here and the writers poke fun at many issues, such as the private contractor soldiers who no one knows why they are there

I find all the hate in the reviews very much reflective of the right/left divide in the USA.

I was eager to see the reviews here after watching the first episode and found that I was in agreement with the opinions expressed. However, I have a rule that I give a show at least 2 episodes before I give up on it. Now I have watched 3 episodes and I think it is getting better. The treatment of issues, like promising citizenship to immigrants who serve and then backing out on it, or the different cultures within mysterious other pseudo-military groups is addressed. I may stick with it as there does seem to be a better effort to show some worthy complexity in the plots.

68 Whiskey has a wonderful cast and scripts with good stories and substance. It's not a shoot-em-up. It's a modern day, hour-long M*A*S*H set in Afghanistan, and then some, with perhaps a bit more drama and less broad comedy. I was pleasantly surprised to trip over this show. I hope it stays around for a while.