The series of these elite soldiers such as ‘SIX’ or ‘SEAL Team’ have arrived at the same time as the summer holidays
Two helicopters approach a military base. They fly over the facilities, where several red crosses can be seen. Two jeeps and some soldiers approach the landing zone to treat the stretchers with wounded soldiers. That’s how ‘M*A*S*H’ started fifty years ago, a series set on an American base during the Korean War. For eleven seasons he told the misery of the war through doctors and nurses with a clear anti-war message. In short, it was a series of doctors in the midst of armed conflict.
The military has also been home to the other two major themes of the series: police and justice. For example, there they are all seasons of “NCIS” and its locations in Los Angeles, New Orleans and Hawaii; or the lawyers dressed in spotless white and sailor from ‘JAG’. There have also been more recent attempts with doctors in combat areas, such as the Canadian miniseries ‘Combat Hospital’. War series – aside from magnificent and must-have works such as ‘Blood Brothers’, ‘The Pacific’, ‘The Submarine’ by the recently deceased Wolfgang Petersen, ‘Road to Hell’ or Generation Kill’ – have looked at a different type of battle based on your argument.
Those operations that take place in dangerous places and clandestinely by the special forces. In 2006 ‘The Unit’ was released, which told the life of the American special forces for four seasons. A series created by David Mamet, screenwriter of ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’, ‘Elliot Ness’s Untouchables’, ‘The Smokescreen’, ‘Ronin’ or ‘Hannibal’.
Longer, twice as many courses, ‘Strike Back’ (HBO) lasted. A project that ran from December 2011 to April 2020 and focused on the missions (one per season) of a British special corps. He mixed almost as many scenes of war, some of which were questionable, with those of sex.
We had to wait six years for a new landing of this subgenre. In January 2017, Historia premiered “SIX” in the United States, the story of the Navy Seal team six starring Barry Sloane, Kyle Schmid, and Juan Pablo Raba. In Spain it was shown on HBO. However, the fight against terrorism lasted only two seasons and 19 chapters. The low audience of the second course hastened its cancellation. Now, LaSexta has also recovered it for Tuesday night without much success. The last chapter brought together 250,000 people (3.2% of ‘share’). It was doubled in viewership for La 2’s episode of ‘El Commissioner Montalbano’.
Between September and October 2017, just a few days apart, two series were released. One lasted only thirteen chapters; the other will premiere its sixth season in a few weeks. ‘The Brave’ (in Spain it was shown on AXN) and ‘SEAL Team’ (Fox now airs the fifth course) start from the same premise: a group of soldiers specialized in fighting the forces of evil in places where the better than no one knows they are active. In ‘The Brave’, Anne Heche was in charge of sending the team led by Mike Vogel to save lives around the world and prevent terrorist attacks. The public did not support it. Instead, he has remained loyal to ‘SEAL Team’.
It is the project that David Boreanaz, also as a producer, started after closing ‘Bones’ after twelve seasons. He gave up his FBI badge to lead the SEAL Bravo Team, an elite group of six soldiers. The series is not only about the war part but also discusses the problems these soldiers have at home and how they deal with these two worlds. The sixth season will air in the United States on Paramount+ and the producers have in mind to make a movie. Perhaps in the style of ‘Twelve Braves’. And while it’s not about special forces as such, the protagonist is. In ‘The Final List’ (Prime Video), Chris Pratt is the sole survivor of his commando after a failure in Syria. When he returns home, he sets out in search of the reasons that led his brothers to death.
Source: La Verdad
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