Why It Ranks
Band of Brothers' darker, more brutal sibling.
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The Review
The Pacific is the companion piece to Band of Brothers that traded European camaraderie for Pacific theater horror. The show follows three Marines through Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and it refuses to romanticize their experience. Rami Malek appears in an early role. The Peleliu episodes are among the most harrowing war sequences ever filmed for television.
Fun Fact
The production was filmed primarily in Australia, where full-scale recreations of Pacific island battlefields were built in the Melbourne countryside.
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