美国FX有线电视片集《Over There》第一部有关伊拉克战争的电视片集《Over There》将在美国FX有线电视播出，这是美国电视史上首次在还未撤军的同时，播出相关内容的战争剧集。FX有线电视隶属澳洲传媒大亨梅铎旗下的霍士电视集团，霍士集团向来公开支持美国总统布殊出兵伊拉克，但FX有线电视否认播出这部剧集是为攻伊宣传及争取支持。
From producer Steven Bochco ("NYPD Blue," "L.A. Law," "Hill Street Blues") comes the first ｓｃｒｉｐｔed television series set in a current, ongoing war involving the United States. Gritty, intense, evocative and emotional, "Over There" takes you to the front lines of battle and explores the effects of war on a U.S. Army unit sent to Iraq on their first tour of duty, as well as the equally powerful effects felt at home by their families and loved ones.
Unlike any number of movies and TV shows starring middle-age actors portraying American fighting forces in past wars, Over There's combat soldiers look and act like the barely-out-of-high-school young adults (many of whom, in Over There, joined the military out of economic necessity) most of our real-life troops actually are.
Whatever one's feelings about the Iraq war, Bochco and co-writer and director Chris Gerolmo (Citizen X) cut through the politics to get to the individuals whose lives are on the line, who left behind families to find themselves in a most alien environment, fired upon for reasons they may not fully understand. Gerolmo does a superb job of showing us combat conditions in desert sandstorms, with rookie soldiers hanging tough under intense heat while insurgents fire from a distance at anything that moves. This is a new kind of war show, yet in many ways Over There embraces a few sentimental conventions, notably scenes in which the unit's members explain the origins of their nicknames ("Angel," "Dim," "Doublewide," "Mrs. B," and more). In the Bochco tradition, when violence comes, it comes as a grievous surprise....
