Hi I'm Mel, 28 and currently a housewife and mother to Ryan (born 02.01.06) and Jamie (born 23.07.07...
Hi I'm Mel, 28 and currently a housewife and mother to Ryan (born 02.01.06) and Jamie (born 23.07.07).
Member since:09.07.2006
Reviews:7
M*A*S*H is based on a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. I didn't think I would like this as its quite an old series and it was first broadcast in 1972 and I didn't enter the world for some 6 years after, it never really appealed to me. However, my partner loves it, so though I would give it a try.
The first season primarily introduces you to the characters in the show from the Colonel Henry Blake to Chief Surgeon Hawkeye Pearce to Company Clerk Radar O'Reilly.
A valiant attempt is made via black humour to show the team spirit that was imperative for a M*A*S*H unit to function. We are given glimpses into the main characters personal lives and their personalites, for example, Hawkeye's admiration for his father and for the nurses and Frank's (Surgeon) utter childish behaviour and desire to please Hotlips (Chief Nurse) in any way he could. Radar is the youngest on the base and his naivety of the whole situation is real, yet at the same time as all the hilarity, we are given glipses of the harsh brutality that war is.
This Unit is based about a mile from the front line and mostly surgery mostly consists of the doctors trying to put young soliders, many of them younger than the doctors themselves, back together long enough for them to reach the main hospital based in Tokyo.
Each episode is expertly written as there is always a comic side and a serious side to each one, therefore, while making you laugh, they also make you sit back and think of what life must of actually been like there. Over the 3 disc set, you get to understand and sympothise with the characters, whilst wetting your appetite for Season 2.
I really enjoyed the practical jokes and carry on by Hawkeye and John Trapper (Surgeon) as they constantly play them on Frank, but he truely deserves every single minute of it. My favourite episode out of the 24 has to be Tuttle, where Hawkeye manages to create a fictional captain, with the help of Radar and Trapper, in order to give the local orphange more money and more medical supplies and he succeds in doing so. I must say also that Spearchucker was wrote out of the programme due to historical history in that coloured people didn't serve back then, so we only briefly see him.
M*A*S*H Seaon One also contains the pilot episode, but sadly no real extras, of which there must have been many they could have put on as out-takes.
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Advantages: Excellent ensemble cast, brilliant scripts, realistic plotlines, extremely funny yet poignant, quality remastered prints and digital surround sound Disadvantages: no extras on the discs but quality paper inserts
Advantages: Half-hour episodes so they're easy to fit in to even the busiest life Disadvantages: Laugh-out-loud moments can be embarrassing if watching alone
Advantages: Excellent ensemble cast, brilliant scripts, realistic plotlines, extremely funny yet poignant, quality remastered prints and digital surround sound Disadvantages: no extras on the discs but quality paper inserts
Advantages: Half-hour episodes so they're easy to fit in to even the busiest life Disadvantages: Laugh-out-loud moments can be embarrassing if watching alone
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