68 Whiskey

Hi Mr. D,

How are you? I found your email online and I am an Afghan from NM reaching to you about a show called 68 Whiskey. Are you involved in it?

There is a guy I am sure you know Fahim Fazli, he is acting in it but he is an uneducated man and I met him in New Mexico a few years ago. How come he is an Afghan adviser on this show? he can not read and write well and he doesn't speak Pashto.

He was screaming vulgar language in episode one of 68whiskey and I couldn't watch it with my family. We Afghans don't use vulgar language like that. Can you do something so the 68whiskey company knows about it? Can you help me and give me their contact information too? They should hire an educated and expert Afghan to help them with Afghan culture and language and not this uneducated guy.

Please read these reviews and an Afghan interpreter also wrote a review and I totally agree.

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 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.

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.

People hating because this isn't as realistic as they want it to be? No disrespect to our awesome military, but I haven't served and don't give a crap how accurate a random tv show on a random station is. Its entertainment and I was entertained. cant wait for the 2and episode. the chicks are hot, the dudes are fun to watch, and Ron Howard is awesome. I'll keep watching