M.A.S.H. - Series 4 (Box Set) (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: Superb acting, scripting and general presentation
Disadvantages: This sort of comedy isn't for everyone

M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical hospital) was a television series that ran for eleven seasons between 1973 and 1983. The series was set in the Korean War and based around the oddball characters that served in the 4077th MASH. The series itself fits into the category of black comedy set in the Korean War. It is probably the best place here to mention that this series does not insinuate ever that war or the situations is causes is a funny thing or ... Read review

Advantages: darkly funny, politically satiric, excellent acting, great scripts, well filmed
Disadvantages: ability to play all from menu nonexistent and must be played by chapter

It's Korea, in 1950. North and South Korea are at war. China is fighting alongside North Korea, and the US, UK, and most of the rest of the first world nations are fighting alongside South Korea. In the midst of the death, misery, and destruction, just three miles from the front is a MASH unit. That is Mobile Army Surgical Hospital to you and me. It is the 4077th and the wounded and dead just keep on coming, from both sides of the conflict. *********************PA ... Read review