Band of Brothers: Season 1 - TV Reviews (2024)

This series is both sensitive and simplistic and its variations on Whiteness while okay in 2001, in 2024 reminds one of all the stories of minorities that were left out of the narrative of World War II.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 21, 2024

It won six Emmy Awards (out of nineteen nominations) and is, simply put, one of the most powerful and captivating portraits of men in war ever put on screen.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2023

The battle scenes are spectacular, although wincingly graphic at times.

Full Review | Mar 11, 2020

Band of Brothers is HBO at its very best.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2018

It wants to occupy a kind of middle ground, somewhere between the sobriety of documentary and the daring of great feature-filmmaking.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2018

Shot in England, the $120 million production is surprisingly short on familiar faces. But British actor Damian Lewis combines quiet strength and a convincing accent in the role of the all-American unit leader.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2018

The brilliance of Lewis in this is that he finds a way to make the ordinary aspects of Dick Winters seem extraordinary, rather than trying to play him as an overtly extraordinary man.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2018

In a sense, "Band of Brothers" is a lot like the war: it seems to go on forever, and you're glad when it's finally over. And, in a sense, that kind of authenticity may be the highest tribute that the filmmakers can pay the members of Easy Company.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2018

After watching the 10-hour "Band of Brothers," I'm so drained by the intensity of what I have just beheld that I'm ready to declare this World War II miniseries the finest piece of work ever produced for television.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2018

In dusty browns and grays, "Band of Brothers" creates its own visual poetry, also mostly grim, affirming that on a primal level the stakes of combat are constant from generation to generation.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2018

Band of Brothers may be the best film ever made to show the everlasting bond forged in war between ordinary men.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 14, 2018

[Damian] Lewis, whose noble, understated characterization of Winters is truly an inspiration, deserves every award television can throw at him.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2018

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks's miniseries is one of the best shows ever to grace the small screen.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2018

Its ten chapters compose an impressive fresco of the conflict, but above all of the soldiers who fought in it. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Aug 14, 2018

Band of Brothers is ten years old and it still holds up as an excellent dramatic account of the second World War.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2018

What is perhaps most striking about the project is its revelation of the ordinariness of heroism.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2018

Rises above the current pervasiveness of its subject to take on the gravity of reconstructed history as art.

Full Review | May 24, 2018

A glorious bungle... At times visually astonishing. Unfortunately it also suffers from disorganization, muddled thinking and a sense of redundancy.

Full Review | May 24, 2018

If it is heartening, it's because it defies cynicism and reveals the realities of courage, compassion, and brotherhood as real men in a horrendous war practiced it.

Full Review | May 24, 2018

A profoundly intense experience that outshines any other World War II epic ever seen on television - or, for that matter, in any Hollywood feature film.

Full Review | May 24, 2018