"Band of Brothers", now on HBO On Demand

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HBO likes to run this around Veterans Day and Memorial Day. Eps 1-5 are up now. I would imagine that 6-10 would soon follow.

If you've never seen this, do it now. It is, quite simply, the greatest tv show ever made. It's so good, it feels funny calling it a tv show.

Ten episode mini-series, each episode about an hour long. Based on the true story of Easy Company, a company of paratroopers who were EVERYWHERE in WWII: starting with the D-Day invasion at Normandy, through France, Holland, Belgium, and finally Germany itself, with stops along the way at Bastogne (Battle of the Bulge), the discovery of the concentration camps, and Berlin at the very end, including Hitler's mountaintop "Eagle's Nest".

Visually, it's a lot like "Saving Private Ryan". Not surprising, since Spielberg and Hanks have their names all over this.

What separates it from "SPR"? We have ten episodes to get to know these guys. They become the best of friends, and we are let into their circle of friendship. We go through boot camp with them, we drink with them. We shiver with them in the woods at Bastogne, and we [censored] our pants with them when the terrifying shells start to fall. We celebrate with them when they liberate a Dutch town. We curse incompetent officers with them. We recoil with them when they discover a death camp. We giggle with them when they loot Goering's liquor cabinet.

And we cry with them every time they lose a buddy. You'll have your favorite guys as the series progresses. And you'll jump out of your chair and scream, "Oh no, not him!", if he gets wounded or killed.

I never heard anyone say that this show was anything but "unbelievable" or "awesome". If you haven't seen it yet, do yourself a favor, and dial it up.

Dick Winters was a [censored] MAN.