Generation Kill
Get Some
TV Flash files “Get Some” as a desk essential hour — Generation Kill (2008) on HBO, season 1, episode 1, aired 2008-07-13, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 7 in the Generation Kill guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2008-07-13 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “The Cradle of Civilization” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Get Some”. Get Some is the invasion door: The Wire's Simon and Burns following Marine recon into 2003, operational farce already louder than the poster.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In the northern desert of Kuwait, the elite, specially trained U.S. First Recon Marines prepare to invade Iraq as the "tip of the spear" for Operation Iraqi Freedom. At the Camp Mathilda staging ground, Marines in First Recon's Bravo Company combat boredom, cramped tents, shortages of necessary supplies and armor, mustache protocol, officer ineptitude, a wind storm, an espresso machine fire and rumors of J-Lo's death while awaiting orders from Col. Stephen "Godfather" Ferrando, the raspy-throated Commander of First Recon. They also welcome a writer ("Scribe") from Rolling Stone magazine, who'll be embedded with Bravo's five-vehicle Platoon 2 unit, riding in a Humvee with Team Leader Brad "Iceman" Colbert, driver Ray Person and LCpl. James Trombley. After an unexpected and portentous mass delivery of pizza, the soldiers finally break camp, pack up their Humvees and cross the northern border into Iraq -- and into an uncertain future.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Get Some sit in the Generation Kill guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 7 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Generation Kill S01E01 air?
Get Some aired 2008-07-13 and is listed at 60 minutes.
How long is Generation Kill?
Seven episodes, 2008, one limited series. No open-ended war procedural — a recon unit into the 2003 invasion, then it stops.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The Wire's David Simon and Ed Burns follow a Marine recon unit into the 2003 Iraq invasion and skip the poster. Generation Kill is seven episodes of bad intel, black humor, and operational farce in the dust — banter as a survival skill, heroics refused on principle.
Generation Kill does not open like a war poster. It opens like a briefing that already failed. David Simon and Ed Burns — the team behind The Wire — follow a Marine recon unit into the 2003 Iraq invasion for seven critically acclaimed HBO hours in 2008, based on Evan Wright's embedded reporting. Alexander Skarsgård as Brad "Iceman" Colbert, James Ransone's Ray Person, Lee Tergesen as Wright, Stark Sands, Billy Lush, Jon Huertas. Bad intel. Black humor. Operational farce in the same dust cloud. Banter as a…
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- James Ransone as Ray Person
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- Lee Tergesen as Evan 'Scribe' Wright
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- Stark Sands as Nate Fick
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- Billy Lush as Harold James Trombley
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- Jon Huertas as Antonio Espera
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