The Daily Stream: M*A*S*H Is An Endlessly Groundbreaking Anti-War Sitcom

(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Series: “H-1972-movie-posters/”>M*A*S*H“Where You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: One of the most vital and beloved sitcoms of all time, “M*A*S*H” follows a group of rowdy but deeply humane army doctors through the seemingly endless Korean War.

The surgical team is headed up by Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda), a wise-cracking, martini-swilling playboy who’s also a traumatized, unwilling participant in a seemingly endless war.

Hawkeye’s a surprisingly complex sitcom character, by both 1972’s standards and today’s, but then again, no one in “M*A*S*H” is two-dimensional.The series based on Robert Altman’s film follows the members of a division of the U.S.

Mobile Army Surgical Hospital as they quarrel, prank each other, fall in and out of love,

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