I’ve already officially raved about HBO’s rivetingly realistic Iraq War miniseries Generation Kill, which begins its seven-week run tonight (9 pm/ET). Most every other critic I know is on board as well. But for David Simon, the revered creator of The Wire who helped shape journalist Evan Wright’s book into a you-are-there road trip with a unit of Marines that’s alternately hilarious and harrowing, the audience he was most interested in impressing were those in uniform.Last Wednesday night, on the eve of HBO’s presentation to TV critics at the ongoing TCA press tour, the producers and cast screened part of the miniseries for several hundred Marines at the Southern California base of Camp Pendleton. “The screening at Pendleton last night was probably the one that we cared about,” Simon said. “That was one, I think, we were all a little bit terrified of.” To which Wright, who was embedded with the troops on assignment for Rolling Stone, adde...read more
