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- National Geographic
- Nov 5, 2017
- National Geographic
- Nov 5, 2017
- National Geographic
- Nov 5, 2017
- National Geographic
- Nov 5, 2017
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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25% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
80
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The Long Road can be tough to watch--I saw the first three episodes--but it does seem like it’s essential to. Excellent and unflinching.
The Long Road Home stands above the pack as a truly heart-wrenching and often breathtakingly harrowing display of bravery, valor and sacrifice under fire. [30 Oct 2017 - 12 Nov 2017, p.13]
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Based on 30 User Ratings
4.6
47% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
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15 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 30 User Ratings
4.6
47% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
3% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
50% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
This is a grimy gripping rendition of war that is a relentless assault on ones emotions. Not since band of brothers have i been this bothered in a good way.
The history channel keeps upping the ante on top notch tv production.
Bravo ....Bravo... Bravo.....
For all those who **** are kindred spirits.
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SEASON 1
The Long Road Home is beautiful and heartbreaking. It is not always easy to watch, but its truth is so magnificently insistent, you cannot look away. Without question, it is one of the finest television offerings of the year.
Characterization is not the strong suit of The Long Road Home, but the actors do their level best, and directors Phil Abraham and Mikael Salomon excel at depicting the camaraderie of the soldiers as well as the chaos that envelops them at several key moments. But The Long Road Home could have trimmed its overlong running time by cutting out all the home-front storylines.
A mostly conventional approach to a story framed around heroism and faith, it’s a show that does the most justice to its real-life inspiration when it resists its own impulses to manufacture drama where plenty already exists.
For the most part, The Long Road Home would rather stick to stock scenes and manipulative sympathy-seeking that add up to "support the troops" messaging than tell messily human stories. Thus the miniseries is the latest pop-culture military production to fail to understand that you can powerfully do both.
Eight hours, frankly, stretches the story in a way that creates uneven patches. Although it allows more time to develop characters and their histories -- including flashbacks before their deployment, and jumping ahead beyond it -- those arcs perhaps cast too wide a net, diluting the powerful moments by creating more space to drift into melodrama.
Amazing Movie which deserves alot of attention. well made and great casting. One of the best war miniseries ever. I recomend you watch it as soon as possible!
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SEASON 1
Both visually convincing and emotionally compelling, The Long Road Home dedicates each episode to specific characters using some of the methods from Band of Brothers to effectively highlight the high tensions in a critical situation.
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SEASON 1
Very pretentious and weirdly religious. The only actors that are great and I *want* to see (like Noel Fisher) barely have any screen time at all.
More action would have helped. There isn't very much and it feels very "small", as if they had a terribly limited budget.
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SEASON 1
This series has severe religious overtones, no swearing, unrealistic interactions within the armed forces and is completely black and white. If you are looking for a decent semi realistic war mini series perhaps watch Generation Kill. It really feels like this series was made for an upright Christian viewership.
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