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Generation Kill Part 7 / “Bomb in the Garden”

By Elliott Logan Part 1 of Generation Kill is titled “Get Some.” The seventh and final part, “Bomb in the Garden,” could also be titled “Take Stock.” I implied of last week’s Part 6, which was set around the final...
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Generation Kill Part 6 / “Stay Frosty”

By Elliott Logan Cpl. Pearson: … Iraqis don’t seem very good at fighting. But they never really completely surrender,                                            either…” Sgt. Colbert: (Seei...
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Generation Kill Part 5 / “A Burning Dog”

“Three words: tempo, tempo, tempo.” “Because of this dyin’ motherfucker, and his dead friends, we’re eight hours behind schedule.” —Lt. Col. ‘Godfather’ Ferrando As is the pattern with Generation Kill, as a hi...
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Generation Kill Part 4 / “Combat Jack”

by Elliott Logan Generation Kill often explicitly raises political ideas, but in an ironic fashion, defusing them of seriousness. For example, Corporal Pearson’s countless rants regarding the motivation of the war, from lack ...
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Generation Kill Part 3 / “Screwby”

By Elliott Logan The cornerstones of Generation Kill’s aesthetic are the fetishistic attention to detail and the deliberation of pace. This undermines the hyper-dramatisation and simplification of generic scenarios, which res...
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Generation Kill Part 2 / “The Cradle of Civilization”

by Elliott Logan I intend for this—and the remainder of my articles on Generation Kill—to be read after watching the episodes. In them, I aim to discuss particular moments, scenes, and sequences that explore the concerns an...
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