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This drama filmed in widescreen PDTV is a joint venture of BBC2 and HBO currently televised in England on BBC2 and has high production values. Storyline
follows the family, political and military life of Sadaam Hussein and company starting with his rise to power in the late seventies-early eighties. Production
values are what you would expect in an HBO production and episodes run two hours in length (obviously shorter with commercials.) two episodes have aired thus
far and torrents of the show are easily found. House Of Sadaam airs on Wednesdays on BBC2. Graphic Violence, Adult Content, Language, Actual Archived News
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Dr Will Hatch two point oh |
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Posts: 4268 (08/07/08 9:39 PM) Registered user |
I'll check it out
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Unfortunately this show with real promise is done next week after four episodes.
It's all about family violence and much more violent than another HBO offering The Sopranos. In this case nuclear family. Saddam's mani ability to seize power centered around the fact he was ruthless and was by 20 an accomplished thug and assassin. Crazy as a loon, too-staring at an obviously made up piece of parchment that proclaimed him as descended from a prophet and having blood taken from his body so he could write the Koran in his own blood-all the while his country reeling from UN economic sanctions. Then there's number one son Uday who snorts cocaine almost non stop, rapes servants at will and beats a neighbor to death for a party that keeps him awake at his pool in front of hundreds of guests. And other various snake like things. One can only hope next week is the week Uday and the less violent son are killed in a shootout but I doubt we will see Saddam hang. Four episodes of this type of underhanded violence is not enough and puts Big Brother to shame (well, that's easy, of course) |
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The first three episodes are really good the last one really terrible. What makes the last one so bad is the quick killing of Uday and Qusay and Sadaam's
grandson. In real life the grandson grabbed a rifle after his uncles were killed and was yelling out death to Americans or something like that. Nothing of the
sort happens here and nothing really violent and enjoyable happens in this episode as the other three. Also you don't see Saddam hang or the eccrentric way
he behaved while under arrest. They totally botched the last episode and basically seems like they were afraid to show the real graphic details like they did
in the first three episodes.
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Piranhahaha |
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HBO's finally coughing up this series, starting tomorrow.
Tom Shales just gave it a thoughtful review. I'm going to DVR it. http://www.washingtonpost...0503958.html?hpid=artslot |
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TV MA LSV |
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Eh.
It earns a solid meh. |
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nomii |
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just finished thefirst 3 episodes and yea this show is pretty amazingly good. i kept thinking "no way did this really happen" but then wiki-ed stuff
and it really is all inspired real events.
nice. |
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Piranhahaha |
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I watched eps I - IV yesterday and really liked this.
The thing that kind of freaked me out was how tidbits of Middle East history got pieced together through this narrative. Then again, I kept pausing it to go hit wikipedia. Example: I never really understood why the Iraquis and Iranians were so hellbent on slaughtering each other in the 80's. And I never understood why Saddam decided to take all of Kuwait rather than just press its borders, although I sense some revisionism in the air there. Saddam was a murdering SOB who got what he deserved, but still.... now I kind of see why he did what he did. The fucker was a boldface fucker, but no Hitler/Stalin. Is it possible to be posthumously complimented by someone saying you're not a Hitler/Stalin? Anyhow, this is worth watching. |
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Fuck. I was hoping this was an Arrested Development spin-off.
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