The Pacific has been soaring the charts on Netflix’s top television shows over the last week.
The epic five-year account of the United States Marine Corps assault on Japan is delivered by the same creative team that brought us Band of Brothers with executive producers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks anchoring another captivating story of the plow and horrors of battle as the Americans and Allied troops tried to overcome the Japanese in the South Pacific in the early to mid 1940s.
With the help of an incredible score from renowned composer Hans Zimmer, a handful of very capable directors including Tim Van Patten, David Nutter, and Graham Yost put on the small screen a product that rivals what Spielberg did in Saving Private Ryan some 12 years earlier.
The gruesome and visceral images of bloody battle are ubiquitous, and it paints a very realistic and gut-wrenching portrait of the…
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