Over There

2005-2005
1 season
FX Network
Action & Adventure, Drama
TV-MA

A dramatized take on war in Iraq.

2005-2005
1 season
FX Network
Action & Adventure, Drama
TV-MA

A dramatized take on war in Iraq.

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Boy enrolls in the army. Boy goes overseas to fight the bad guys in Afghanistan. Boy returns home safely to his two younger brothers. Sounds like a happy ending, right? Not quite. On the new military comedy Enlisted, premiering Friday at 9:30/8:30c on Fox, Geoff Stults plays Staff Sergeant Pete Hill, an ambitious super soldier who is sent back home to Fort McGee, Fla., and reassigned to the far less impressive Rear Detachment unit after his temper gets the best of him in the war zone. "He's definitely struggling with it," Stults tells TVGuide.com. "He's going to try to make the best of it, but he feels bad that he's not overseas with his brothers, his other brothers, fighting. He feels like that's the only way that he can give back to his country. He has to learn to find different ways to feel like...

Fri, Jan 10, 2014

Enlisted Offers a New Spin on the Workplace Comedy: "Our Dunder Mifflin Is the U.S. Military"

What were your Top 10 ...

Question: What were your Top 10 favorite shows of 2005, and why?Answer: I thought you'd never ask, Jackie! 1. Battlestar Galactica: I haven't been this excited about a TV show since... ever. And if that makes me a sci-fi geek, so be it. (But please, no wedgies.)2. Deadwood: Can't understand what they're sayin' half the time, but I sure like how they're sayin' it.3. Lost: Season 2 not only exceeded my expectations, it upended them. 4. Grey's Anatomy: Makes me want to be a doctor, if only to hang out with these people. And have lots of sex.5. Veronica Mars: If this is what happens when UPN meddles with a show, I say keep those notes c

Wed, Dec 28, 2005

Can you please get some ...

Question: Can you please get some official poop on whether or not Over There will be back? Me and my crew are buggin'. We love the show.Answer: I've got bad news. FX officially pulled the plug yesterday. Here's the statement from the network's president, John Landgraf: "I'm deeply proud of Over There, which was beautifully produced, acted, written and directed. The series was arguably the most critically acclaimed new television show of the year, a fact that made the decision not to renew it all the more difficult. That decision was motivated entirely by Over There's ratings performance and our belief that the numbers were reflective of what the show is about, rather than its quality or entertainment value. While we are passionately committed to fostering great television, we are an advertiser-supported network and the size of our audience is vital to our bottom line."

Wed, Nov 2, 2005

SHORT CUTS

Fox has picked up The War at Home and Bones for a full season.... Angelina Jolie received the Global Humanitarian Award from the United Nations Association of the U.S.A. Tuesday night for her work as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N.'s refugee agency.... Due to split coverage of the baseball play-offs on Fox and FX tonight, Over There will be preempted. The season's final two episodes will now air on Oct. 19 and Oct. 26.

Wed, Oct 12, 2005

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. The image of...

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. The image of oil-company stooges gets slapped around but good when Scream and the boys are assigned to protect pipeline workers in a story line swiped from Fahrenheit 9/11. After complaining about how guards in a private security firm make $30,000 a month doing the same thing they do (oddly, there was no mention of Dubya's cut of American troops' combat pay), the squad enters a village where the inhabitants don't really care for Western types, especially if they're oil drillers. These folks would fall over themselves to shoot J.R. But that doesn't deter an oil-company stooge from trying to impose democracy on them, which only serves to turn an imam's wife intp an outcast. Goaded by Mr. Oil Stooge, the woman has the nerve to suggest that the Americans should build a school for their village rather than a mosque. That's when Tariq's BS detector starts to go off. He quotes Jake Gittes from Chinatown ("You think you know what's going on, but

Thu, Sep 15, 2005

An hour before I watched this...

An hour before I watched this I received the news of my godfather's sudden passing, which got me thinking about powerlessness and grief. The process of grief consists of three phrases — denial, acceptance and healing. War is the most grievous situation imaginable, though it is hardly deniable (although we've flirted with phrases like "police action" in the past), but owning up to the truth that grief can't be dealt with alone is as difficult as, say, admitting an addiction. This is not to say that people are addicted to war, but no one likes to admit he's scared. Smoke is a pothead for a reason — he's trying to escape. But he's been trying to escape all his life, which is probably why he couldn't take his mother praying for him. He doesn't believe in God, let alone redemption. But her stroke cracked this loner's angry façade. It's bad enough that he's being excoriated by the world's press and a target of the insurgents (who blame him for killing a mother and child), but what torments h

Thu, Sep 1, 2005

The platoon is involuntarily thrust...

The platoon is involuntarily thrust into the spin zone when overeager journalist John Moffet (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) attempts to "report the truth" about the Iraq conflict. To Moffet's credit, he's ready to stick his neck out after a cable-news service cynically manipulates his footage to stir up a controversy. But that means zip to Smoke, who comes to bitterly regret pulling a Terrell Owens in front of Moffet's camera ("I got me a license to kill!") after he's implicated in the deaths of a civilian mother and son during a firefight. The self-loathing chink in Smoke's gangsta armor is finally exposed when he tearfully tells Angel to "shut up" with the prayers for him and his "Moms," who suffered a stroke after watching a TV report about the incident. Unknown to Angel, Smoke's mother made a habit out of praying for her troubled son, much to his guilt and chagrin. The bigger the front, the bigger the back. Sadly, Moffet's determination to make amends

Thu, Aug 25, 2005