So glad you decided to watch the best mini series ever made. I watch this every chance I get . Strap yourself in and we'll enjoy the ride together.

Lutz imitating Major Horton and getting Sobel to cut the fence is a true story.

@donaldstewart8342

2 ай бұрын

Luz

"Ron Livingston... He normally plays comedic roles" ** enter David Schwimmer **

@CEngelbrecht

19 күн бұрын

David Schwimmer is legit. Type casting can be hell. His character feels like George McClellan.

This is one of the best TV series ever made, Welcome to the best Televised WW2 Rollercoaster ride. The Acting is superb by a cast that was mostly unknown with a large majority of them being British actors playing Americans for whom this was their breakout roles such as Damien Lewis as Winters, Marc Warren as Blithe, Dexter Fletcher as Sgt. Martin, Ross McColl as Liebgott, Shane Taylor as Doc Roe,Michael Fassbender as Sgt. Christenson,Tom Hardy as Janovec and many more

@Pedrogog

2 ай бұрын

I've been watching BOB for over 20 years. I'm from Brazil, a little people know about it over here.

@cbtowers4841

2 ай бұрын

I didn't know this. 😮 After I saw this comment I searched for shorts with them speaking just to hear their accents with their faces. Winters threw me off just because he appeared the most in this series so my brain couldn't process him having an accent. 😂

@RawTopShot

2 ай бұрын

I noticed Simon Pegg in there early on too.

I watch Band of Brothers once a year, it never loses it's impact.

David Schwimmer did an incredible job in being an incredible unlikable character. He actually can act.

@TheEclecticBeard

2 ай бұрын

Yeah he surprised me. So unlikeable in this when normally you either feel for or genuinely enjoy his characters.

@mikem10481

2 ай бұрын

My favourite comment about his performance was, This is what Ross did on his break.

@TheEclecticBeard

2 ай бұрын

🤣

It is nice to see a reaction of this show from someone with some knowledge of military chain of command and expectations, as well as the history of WW2. Enjoy a great mini series.

@buddystewart2020

2 ай бұрын

It's kind of crazy how rare that is. I was like, oh, he was in the Coast Guard, cool, he knows what an NCO is.

This series focuses only on the war in Europe. But it has a companion series called 'The Pacific' for that theatre. Also yes it's a true story about a real group of guys. You see them in the series in the interviews.

Richard Winters was an extraordinary leader and combat commander, he is portrayed by Damien Lewis who did an awesome job capturing the essence of Winters, RIP all the men of Easy Company and all their brothers in arms.

Seeing some of the actors that got their break from this series is like an elite hall of fame class.

Oh my you're the Tom Bombadil of reactors! Infectious laughter x articulate insights + former coast guard no-nonsense, I dig that! Cheers from France

Best mini series ever except perhaps for the TV version of Das Boot!

If you're going all the way with this...be prepared to grow, laugh, learn and suffer with these characters. The first episode is in some ways my favorite, if only for the innocence and the fact that I know what lies ahead for these men. This was when their biggest threats were "Army noodles with ketchup." I love the power move Winters makes by literally grabbing the pen out of Sobel's hand while he was abusing his...it's brilliant, and a true story. Hard to call this a TV show honestly, it's a 12 hour Saving Private Ryan in quality...CURRAHEE! ♠

This series is incredible. What I wouldn't give to be able to see this again for the very first time. Looking forward to your journey through this. Cheers!

Great Review, and welcome to the best mini series ever made! What makes it great is what you talked about at the end the attention to detail and the committment they had to gettng the history right. All the actors playing the parts were given dossiers on the men they were portraying, based on research, records, and stories from survinging members of the company. Some of the real men were still alive when the show was being filmed and those actors where encouraged to reach and and speak with the men directly, to get first hand sense of him and the things that happened. That contributed to the actors desire to make the show as good as possible, and as you watch the show you can see that committment come through.

Believe it or not, it only gets better from here

This series should be Mandatory for every Highschool. I had Grandfathers on both sides of WW2 and what they teach in school now is NOT history. What the men and women of that time went through is lost on this generation.

Omg EB, How have you not have seen this series, I have an understanding wife and she lets me watch the whole series every Christmas, it is the GOAT of TV , Enjoy brother 💛👍🏼

This came across my feed and since I'm a HUGE fan of this series and I LOVE to watch people REACT to it for the FIRST time I clicked!! A little HARD to believe that someone like yourself HASN'T seen the series already!!😮😮 Anyway this is based on a true events taken from the memoirs of the men that you see being interviewed at the beginning of each episode!! Is focus is mainly on the European theater of operation but another series that came along 10 years later called the Pacific focuses on that theater!!! Then you have a third edition which is recently been released and is still streaming called Masters of the Air!! Masters focuses on the 8th Army Air Force, specifically the 100th bomber group, and their missions bombing occupied Europe from bases in England in 1943, 44, and 45!!!❤ Their nickname was the BLOODY 100th because of the casualties that they sustained!! All three series are top-notch and extremely educational.

@TheEclecticBeard

2 ай бұрын

I'm so bad when it comes to seeing stuff, especially if it wasn't on regular (hell even if it was) tv. This being an HBO show (Along with True Detective which I plan on getting to as well) I never had HBO until we got their streaming service and even with that it's only been used for DC animated movies and stuff like Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress and some other animes that Netflix didn't have. There's a ton of stuff that due to either doing youtube and the time it requires or when I was working 40+ hours a week I never got around to, and there's a lot of movies thanks to being raised in an independent fundamental baptist church that I've never seen that I will be getting around to going forward on this channel. I mean, I've watched the first 2 episodes of breaking bad years ago when it first hit Netflix but that's all I've seen of it. There's shows like Power, Better Call Saul and others that I've never gotten around to that I'll be hitting in the near future on here along with a lot of anime that others either grew up on or are popular right now that I want to personally watch. A lot of stuff I want to watch and discover.

In the early 1900’s flight was invented. The first flying machines were made out of wood. That’s about 10 years before WWI. By the end of WWII, man dropped nuclear bombs out of an airplane across the world. The advancement in technology during that time was both spectacular and horrifying.

This is the first of 3 shows that set new standards in real lie dramas, Band of Brothers, Pacific & currently airing Masters of the Air all done by Tom Hanks & Steven Spielberg & every episode is of equal quality to this one. One of the reactors I watch is a film student that has already earned diplomas & is truly impressed by the quality of the production & techniques of the filming of Band of Brothers & Masters of the Air. I will be looking forward to your reactions to this show & the others as I am sure you will want to watch them after completing this one.

This is one of the best reactions to this series i’ve seen, a genuine first reaction by someone who clearly knows his history and the ways of the military. What a treat, please please after this series carry onto “The Pacific” and “Masters Of The Air”.

This was a brilliant series, I loved it. I also read the book that the series is based on and a lot of things are explained in greater detail. The men do give Sobel credit for the training he gave them at Camp Toccoa, he did indeed train them to be the best soldiers in the regiment but he did so only to make himself look good. Sobel was very jealous of Winters because of the amount of respect the men had for him and he convinced himself that Winters was trying to get command of Easy Company but Winters had no desire to command until after the court martial. Winters was aware that the sergeants intended to resign their ranks and tried to convince them not to go ahead with it, but as we saw in the show they did. It's a book I highly recommend.

@RushfanUK

2 ай бұрын

I read Ambrose's book, Winters book and several others by the men in Easy, Sobel did get credit for the training but as Winters said he was mean, there was something in his character that led him to go too far and beyond that of enforcing discipline, he was also as shown an awful field commander.

It's a great accounting of events, from men that were there. Stunning cast. * There's a definite core of people that really despise Friends (I'm one), but Schwimmer's really good in this and I've seen him good in a couple other roles too. You can easily see his role training Easy Company as part of them being as good a unit as they were, even if he was a dick. You've also got Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead), Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender in very early screen time for them. It's a stunning series and a real benchmark in serialised drama. It's supposed to be VERY historically accurate, Winters was there after all and I believe the crew worked incredibly hard to get things correct. I think it's worth everyone watching at least once. Historically, an immense sacrifice.

Excellent reaction. Nice to see someone watching who is not completely uninformed about the war and the military. Looking forward to the rest of your reactions.

1 Gold Bar = 2nd Lieutenant. 1 Silver Bar = 1st Lieutenant. 2 Silver Bars (“Railroad Tracks”) = Captain.

Lost on most people is Dale Dye playing Robert Sink. Let me rephrase that... 57 year old Dale Dye playing 38 year old Robert Sink. Capt. Dye does a great job in the role, but it always gives me a good chuckle, knowing the history of these guys (and still learning). It's funny you mention the troop ships being in danger of U-boats. There's a guy in Easy company named Roy Cobb. You'll see a little more of him in some of the later episodes. Cobb was actually at least ten years older than everyone else in Easy, having served in the army since 1934. He was with the 1st Armored Division in Africa in 1942 during Operation Torch. I bring up Cobb because while on the way back to the states after Operation Torch, the troop ship he was in was torpedoed and sunk. He survived, and signed up with the airborne when they were formed. He was already a professional soldier with combat experience when he started the training at Toccoa along with the rest of Easy. It's always great when someone new gets to experience this series for the first time. Just keep in mind that, while a true story - this series, throughout all of the episodes presents the story with various degrees of accuracy & inaccuracy simultaneously to help tell the story in a way that the viewer can follow better. When Easy left England for D-day, there were 139 guys making up the company, and the company would shrink with casualties, and then beef back up with replacements throughout the war, so the neighborhood of "120-ish" is pretty much how many guys were in the company at any given time. Because of this, it would be logistically impossible to depict the experiences of every single guy in a ten episode series. So a lot of stories that happened to Easy company guys we're never introduced to were attributed to a small core of characters that we're going to be following. Looking forward to your enjoying this series!

Super insightful reaction, absolutely loved it! In the mutiny scene, Harris and Ranney were the two getting demoted because they were the senior NCOs at the time and Sink suspected they were the ringleaders of the mutiny. Ranney was sent to another company but managed to rejoin Easy not long after.

I first saw the mini series "Band of brothers" on TV and I enjoyed it so much I had to get the dvd box set, there is another one called "The Pacific" made by the same people! You will enjoy the rest of it, and it really made me thankful for what all the armed forces did for us back then! They truly were heroes ❤️🥰👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇮

By the time Easy Company was being transported to England... the u-boat threat in the North Atlantic was almost non-existent.

I'm glad you're watching this it is awesome. And it is filmed so well it's Spielberg at the end of the day.

Military Officer Ranks (Army, Air Force, Marines): Single Gold Bar = Second Lieutenant Single Silver Bar = First Lieutenant Double Silver Bars = Captain Gold Oak Leaf = Major Silver Oak Leaf = Lieutenant Colonel Silver Eagle = Colonel (Full Bird) Single Silver Star = Brigadier General Double Silver Stars = Major General Triple Silver Stars = Lieutenant General Quadruple Silver Stars = General Quintuple Silver Star = General Of The (Army/Air Force/Marines)

So from the time i was 17 yrs old back in 1993 every Jan at the Battle of the Bulge Reenactment in Fort Indiantown GAP, PA with E/ 506th living history unit we had almost all the org. Troopers with us (along with Troopers from other Airborne units, and at other events during the year) in our Barrack's and at the public battle. it was this event were i grew up Drinking Prop Blast listing to stories , laughing and singing with these Troopers. God i miss them scalawags those late night drunk Grunt to Grunt talks sitting on bunks with canteen cups of Prop blast and it was this event were XXXX read the letter he got from Tom Hanks asking permission to do it. then he asked us what we thought and we shouted a big HELL YES!! lifting our drinks 100+ Drunken Troopers cheering, them were some epic hangovers

I rarely comment, but I liked your insightful commentary and will look forward to more episodes.

I read the book . They would also run it for fun up and down just to test themselves when they didn't have to .

30:50 "i was *only* in the coast guard" gave me a little chuckle. Thank you for your coast guard service!

👍👍👍👍👍 Band off brothers is amazing. Ya have to watch THE PACIFIC after. Made by the same ppl ✌🇮🇪

Hi Alan, glad you enjoyed this (I need to rewatch it!). This was inspired by the book of the same name by Stephen E. Ambrose who also wrote "Nothing like it in the World" about the building of the transcontinental railroad. The series gets better & better with each episode.

All these men have been through basic training. Some are already serving in the army. They have volunteered for airborne and can quit or be washed out at any time up to deployment and return to the regular army. Out of 5400 volunteers, they need 1800. It's Sobel's job to eliminate 2/3 of these men and only keep the best.

I watch it every month lol It changed my life in a way. Got me off my Arse to use my Ww2 historical knowledge and started a KZread channel.

Yes! Band of brothers is an amazing series. Also the book by Steven A Ambrose is an excilent read/listen

Glad to see another reactor to the best miniseries ever produced. Thank you for your honest and thoughtful reaction. The dichotomy of salutes: after getting reamed by Col. Sink, the non-coms file past Winters and give him a respectful salute. After getting reassigned to Chilton-Foliat, Sobel completely ignores Winters' salute as he goes by in the jeep. Looking forward to Part 2. Currahee!

@TheEclecticBeard

2 ай бұрын

I'll have part 2 up tomorrow.

This used to be on TV on a Friday, parents would go out but would come back just as this was starting, luckily I could stay up and watch it with them, Alan you'll love this series especially when they're surrounded in the woods... Also the amount of actors in this is ridiculous

Crusty old Army Tank Commander here, thank you for your service.

In Europe US Army forces did not engage in combat until Nov 1942, Operation Torch, the Invasion of North Africa. Also Sobel's most damning trait IMHO was that he could not listen, he knew all. If Winters or anyone junior to him tried to offer advice he wouldn't/couldn't listen to it, to see if the idea was worth taking, he immediately rejected it and anyone who would dare advise. A good officer listens to all of his men, takes the info on board and synthesizes the best plan from ALL the available info.

Excellent choice, yes based on memoirs and a bit of dramatic licence...my ,ol ma RIP met lots of American service personnel in Northern Ireland in WW2....Mrs C, s Uncle Joseph, ( East Lancashire regiment ) served alongside the American paratroopers at Nijmegen ,sadly succumbed to his wounds RIP...cheers....E...

Absolutely incredible series! Ur going to love this.

so happy you have started watching this, please read the book

One of the best mini series of all time

Excellent choice. Best mini series ever made.

You ve picked a gem here Alan

I've watched several reactions to this series and you are the first person to take the mutiny so seriously so early. Good for you.

i think it's one of the best things ever produced for screen

I'll definitely be following your journey through this series. It's my favorite thing ever put on film. Also, I'm retired Coast Guard myself

The Beard is in for a treat. Will enjoy the journey yet again. I'll probably miss the Eclectic laugh I love so much, but I feel it's worth it. That background is horrific. Let's go! :) Edit: 2:27 Okay, maybe I was wrong on the laugh thing. 😂But in all seriousness, loving this one. ❤

One of the better reactions I've seen to this wonderful show.

Each episode becomes a favorite.

Yep. One of the best series I’ve seen. Watched it several times 😮

Difficult to compare Band of Brothers with perhaps the best Das Boot because the portrayal of Hitler was something else in Das Boot which also had excellent acting so I rarely compare.

@juttapopp1869

2 ай бұрын

There is no portrayal of Hitler in "das Boot" . You might mean "Der Untergang" ( downfall) which is indeed magnificent and rightly recommended. Bruno Ganz should have had an Oscar for his performance.

This was a great series.

Good luck E Beard you're in for a hell of a ride enjoy.

The follow-up series The Pacific is also very good, although it lacks the continuity that Band of Brothers has. Where BoB follows a single company from bootcamp to VJ-Day, The Pacific jumps around a lot, depicting the stories of different men, in different locations, at different stages of the war. So it does feel a bit disjointed, but it's still a must watch once you've finished Band of Brothers.

Everybody laugh their asses off when Horton reassign Sobel to another school - and I get the sentiment of vengeance, I hated Sobel's guts as well - but I think it was actually pretty graceful how he resolved this situation. Everyone had their part in this endeavour, and Sobel was good to train recruits, but not to lead soldiers on the field.

The old men at the beginning of every episode. Are the actual people who took part in the fighting. Fetched in the episode.

Probably "THE" best WW2 series ever made. Deep deep respect. "Pro Patria"

Sobol was a SOB but more of Easy Company survived because of what he taught them.

Their training was rough but necessary, E company was the assault company of the battalion

100% agree with everyone watched like 10 times so far still love every bit of it and still cry at why we fight episode get your tissues ready

Best show or movie ever made, nothing even comes close

Mr. Beard, I really enjoy your reactions and especially loved that you did Zulu, I would like to suggest another great movie 'The Longest Day' it is all about D-day and follows the allies, the Germans and the French resistance it's easily one of my favorite war movies and has so many big name stars in it including John Wayne, Sean Connelly, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Richard Todd, George Segal, Robert Wagner and many many more.

On the lead up to filming this the actors went on boot camp where they had to play their characters and basically go through training as a unit to make a bond, they deliberately bought soble (ross) in afterwards so he wasn't seen by the actors as one of the men who had been through what they had and bossed them about like this to create a dislike for him.

I try to see all BofB reactions. I enjoyed your reaction and commentary. Hope to see the rest soon.

27:40 love the Dodgeball reference :D

Very good is an understatement.

@27:05 Simon Pegg 😂

Schwimmer gets his comeuppance later in the series. This show & its' sequal 'The Pacific' (though some people don't like that one) are fantastic stories. PS - I have missed your intelligent reactions to old shows. Time for another reaction to 'Open All Hours' I think. Or if you are up for some funny Aussie stuff,,,, try 'Charlie The Wonder Dog''. The creators are pretty cool people so doubt there would be any copyright issues.

It's the age-old solution to problem managers - promote them out of harm's way

Cracking series which has just finished it's umpteenth UK airing a couple of days ago. Doesn't seem that long to me since it was released...but it's only 18 months shy of 25 years!

Quality series good acting.

BoB is Europe. The next series, The Pacific, is Japan

Best ww2 war ‘movie’ ever made.

Sorry the Hitler performance was in the equally good "Downfall" which was another German made film how the two films merged into one is perhaps because I have watched them both recently and at 75 I have a touch of Biden which is common in us old folk.

Promoted Sobel out of harms way. Sometimes its the only option for bad(good)people

Subscribed just so I can hear your views on the 9th episode. I can't wait for you to get to Bastogne.

Great series man u won't be disappointed 😢

Good commentary. Can we get a slightly more opaque version of the OV though? You can always repost if it gets pulled.

Of course this is based on actual people and actual people.

Dude, you did not declare war on Germany - Germany declared war on YOU (which was nice of them, considering Japan hadn't). EDIT - great reactions, you've spotted a few things here other reactors don't - subscribed, will follow your journey on this roller-coaster ride :)

My dude.. you've used the "take me to my profile" link for facebook in your about, so anyone clicking that gets sent to their own profile. That being said, looking forward to your reaction to this show. This is the one WWII show I think everyone should have to watch at school.. or something like that

Great Great series, the end is hard watching, look out for some great actors though the show

Just a thought, maybe try the Devil's Brigade....

I watched the series for the first time about a month ago, I was away at sea when it came out. Bloody fantastic. Now watching Masters of the Air, which is the Bomber Command one.

@TheEclecticBeard

2 ай бұрын

Masters of the Air looks fantastic

@eamonnclabby7067

2 ай бұрын

​@@TheEclecticBeard...the US , British and Commonwealth bomber crews deserve our respect and gratitude....memories are long around here on Merseyside the Germans reaped the whirlwind of what they started...David Schwimmer, excellent actor...cheers fella...E...

Doing a happy dance!❤️🥰❤️

I wont say which episode, but 1 episode makes sugestible feel cold. keep a blanket nearby.

As I always say..better late than never! It's always awesome to watch people experience this masterpiece of a series for the first time. I've seen it so many times but it doesn't matter how many times I've seen it, I still get the same feelings and emotions. Can't wait to see you react to the rest.

Episode 9 WILL affect you deeply. This whole series is one of my favourites. At no time does it glorify war or combat. But it does hold up courage and commitment.

@williamberry9013

2 ай бұрын

Dude, careful close to spoilers.

@FrenchieQc

2 ай бұрын

I really wish people would shut up about episode X or Y. Let reactors go in there unaware and let them be blindsided.

This is anger issue Moist Maker "you ate my sandwich" Ross Gellar x100

No one minds a hard arse officer provided that they are not petty or spitfull and more importantly know what they doing when the shit starts flying.

Let’s go

You should do some research on the Burma campaign. Band of brothers is a fantastic series though. From what i heard, the TV series painted Captain Sobel in a very bad way because it made a better story. Opinion amongst the men who served under him was split into two camps because he would never order his men to do anything that he wouldn't do himself only better and there might have been a bit of antisemitism as he was jewish and the true horror of the holocaust and the camps were as yet unknown. You might want to read his Wikipedia entry and make a comment about it.