I might have to wait for it on Netflix. My DVR is pretty loaded and this show will be 2 hours every night. They should spread it out to once a week.McGarnicle said:I wish it was dropping all at once netflix style. Looking forward to it though.
Would recommend The War, Prohibition, the Civil War, the Roosevelts, Central Park Five, and Jackie Robinson. Baseball too if you're a fan, but it's long.I might have to wait for it on Netflix. My DVR is pretty loaded and this show will be 2 hours every night. They should spread it out to once a week.
Looking forward to it though. The only series I've seen from Burns is the Jazz one and that was really good.
Oh yeah, I did see the Prohibition one.Would recommend The War, Prohibition, the Civil War, the Roosevelts, Central Park Five, and Jackie Robinson. Baseball too if you're a fan, but it's long.
He definitely has a knack for finding every nook & cranny of a subject.
Yep this is awesome, no need to wait to binge the whole thing. PBS stations are showing episodes 1-5 tonight through Thursday, then 6-10 next Sunday through Thursday. Plus the online streaming option. On the Sam Harris podcast, Burns said all 10 will be available starting tonight. I see a PBS app on Roku, will check to see if it works. Hopefully they have the explicit language version.According to some local PBS website I just read, the first 5 episodes should be available to stream on PBS sometime tonight after the premiere, next five on the 24th.
Interesting to see events unfold in the context of what was happening in Korea, China and Russia, as well as our own political climate here at home. I already learned a ton of crap I didn't know.Really great episode and the way it told the French story and flash forward to the mistakes repeating themselves was excellent. I had high hopes for this and think it really will meet those after watching this episode.
They also enjoy smoking cigarettesGood first episode. Highlights:
1. They were a French colony, thus the banh mi sandwich.
2. They don't go to the dentist.
there's #######?PBS app on Roku is
All 10 episodes streaming and they have the explicit version.
Said the joker to the thief.One episode in and so far no "Fortunate Son" or "All Along the Watchtower".
Agree but was surprising to see JFK admit that they weren't going to win so early in the war but he needed to stay in it to win the election. The entire war is a giant tragedy.Really enjoying this so far. It's funny but even with 50+ years of hindsight, I can sort of see why so many people felt so strongly that we had to get involved and stay involved. We think of Global Communism as a historical artifact and a punchline now, but people felt very differently back then and it's much harder to have that objective distance when you're living through something.
Good point. While there were plenty of people back then that didn't buy into the Domino Theory, it was absolutely plausible and real to most policy makers in the US.Really enjoying this so far. It's funny but even with 50+ years of hindsight, I can sort of see why so many people felt so strongly that we had to get involved and stay involved. We think of Global Communism as a historical artifact and a punchline now, but people felt very differently back then and it's much harder to have that objective distance when you're living through something.
I think I heard that in the doc itself. It's important for us to remember that all of the military lessons U.S. leadership brought to Vietnam were learned in World War II and Korea to a lesser extent. I can empathize with those who struggled with the notion that we weren't just fighting a government, we were fighting an idea that most of a country was totally committed to.Good point. While there were plenty of people back then that didn't buy into the Domino Theory, it was absolutely plausible and real to most policy makers in the US.
And I don't remember which episode it was but somebody made a good point about how WWII made people hyper-aware of stopping dictatorships before they became too powerful.
And the footage - i realize he had more to work with than Matthew Brady daguerrotypes this time, but Nam was pretty scattershot coveragewise in the first decade but he & his people had footage - which they had to mine the majority of from leftover Viet Minh sources - for everything they talked about and that's miraculous.Watched episode 1 last night - Burns is such a great storyteller.