heyyydave A few soldiers shot up in Iraq, who in shrill diatribes whine about their war experience, one who is permanently wheelchair-bound and addicted to medications, and sees the government as not helping him. A disillusioned soldier who goes to an anti-war rally (episode 6), joins the anti-war movement and meets a Christ-like portrayal of anti Iraq war leftist activist Cindy Sheehan. A lot of whiny soldier characters and their suffering families spitting profanity at each other in bitter exchanges. Gee, what's not to like? When I looked up the series after viewing it and saw it was written by leftist reporter Martha Raddatz, I was not surprised. Score another for the America-hating, military-hating Cultural Marxist American Left. This miniseries is the polar opposite of the movie LONE SURVIVOR, which I saw as a testament to the conditioning, training, relentlessness and brotherhood of soldiers who serve, even when things go wrong. Another reviewer here compared this series to BLACKHAWK DOWN. But in BLACKHAWK DOWN, even when things went bad, the characters relied on their training and dealt courageously with a bad situation. The movie I'd most closely compare this LONG ROAD HOME series to is Oliver Stone's BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY starring Tom Cruise. Although FOURTH OF JULY had far better acting and direction. In THE LONG ROAD HOME, these are characters who blame America, turn on America and join the resistance to oppose the soldiers they previously fought alongside. It is deeply one-sided America-hating propaganda. Cultural Marxism seeks over 4 or 5 decades to undermine patriotism, nationalism and faith in government, so that with enough indoctrination the next generation is unwilling to defend it, and is open to the socialist/globalist order positioned to replace us. This series is certainly a propaganda piece aimed toward that goal.

sharongoebel Yes the acting is not Tom Cruise but what do you expect for a mini series. You see on the news that there is fighting in Iraq and that troops get deployed but this hits home as to what they go through and endure. I was on the edge of my seat how they got rescued. Fantastic story and my hat is off to these brave men and soldiers. Whoever wrote the negatives comments below should be ashamed of themselves or better yet maybe they should go enroll in the army. Not having sympathy for our troops is disgusting. God bless our troops, freedom is not free.

DCCinema Simplistic reportage by a simple-minded reporter who will never understand what the people she interviews are telling her. It's a technically well-crafted motion picture, but lacks a realistic story. This society lady can go to war zones as many times as she wants and talk to all the soldiers she wants and she will still never understand what they are going through -- before, during or after. I'm sure she had good intentions, but this overly dramatic, heart-on-the-sleeve retelling of the story has only the impressions of a lady reporter garnered from a distance, not the complex impressions of soldiers or their families. This lady should stick to writing something she actually knows about first hand, not just something she finds fascinating. And yes, I'm a veteran.

cleishmains I really can't understand all the negative reviews this series has garnered as I really enjoyed it. It's not the best acted but it depicts a true series of events and does an excellent job of showing how badly the American forces had prepared for urban warfare at that time. Sending an open truck, without a radio and full of troops into streets of multi-storey buildings packed with well armed insurgents is obviously, in hindsight, just madness but that was what the American military did. In a similar fashion the UK sent out unarmoured Land Rover Defenders before finding out that they tended to get blown up by unscrupulous terrorists. Lessons were learned the hard way back then and the series does a good job of showing that.Yes the "homeland" stuff is occasionally a bit cheesy but people "Get over yourselves!" and see the entire series for, overall, a relatively inexpensive good bit of TV entertainment.