Over-there Premiere, TV show on FX Options

[DoomedOne]

Okay so Last Night on FX they premiered this show called Over-There. I thought it was good so I'll review it.

It's a pretty unbiased look at the situation in Iraq and the general mentality of soldiers in war. The first part of it (after they shipped off) they were dug in outside a Mosque where insurgeants were opening fire on them and they couldn't attack back yet because there was an Al jazeera News Crew inside and they had to wait for a General to decide how it would look. So basically every member of the squad had a different reason for joining up and it played into their personalities. It looks a lot like any war movie except it focuses more on the effects of war mentally. For example there was a scene where a guy shot a grenade off that hit a random enemy in the chest and blew off his torso. A pair of legs attached at the pelvus kept walking for a couple seconds before crumpling to the ground. You then see the expressions on the faces of key characters in the squad staring at this brutal scene.

So yeah, War in Iraq for some reason is a big topic here and this show is about that. I'm glad the show doesn't come with a political agenda but just shows a wide range of views.

Check it out Wednesday Nights at 10 on FX, if you get that channel.