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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
Started Tin Star we got bored and stopped.
Recently finished the last season of Jack Ryan and we thought that was outstanding.
The Recruit was not quite believable but fun to watch.
Need to find a new series to watch.
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Jack Ryan is always good. "The Valley of Tears" is an excellent WAR series about the 1973 Yom Kippur War involving Israel. The only problem with it is that it is closed captions, which some people HATE. It does NOT bother me - sometimes I need to PAUSE and go back, but no biggie. It IS so realistic that I felt ALMOST there in their desert fighting alongside them. Soldiers are killed at unpredictable times. Some shelter under the dead bodies of those they had been talking to minutes before. Early on Syria and Egypt have the upper hand with more tanks and very good ground-to-air missiles that were kicking butt and dominating the Isreal Airforce.
.........The acting was uniformly great. One FORMER Israel war veteran looking for his son was particularly moving. There was just one woman with a solid role. There was one VERY unforgettable character that was like a fish out of water - he was a very intellectual "Rainman" character that was in the intelligence gathering service. He predicted that a war would soon break out. He tried to alert his headquarters, but in typical military fashion, he was ignored by upper brass. He was NOT, not even close, to a John Wayne-type action hero. At one point he is carrying, through heavy gunfire, his pet Hedgehog "pine nut" in a cardboard box, while being kept alive by a REAL hard-nosed soldier that recognizes his value as a military intelligence specialist. They are opposites yet like Ying and Yang. It was based on a true story. I recommend it highly. It is on HBO max and is sort of a "sleeper" and not raved about because of the closed captions.