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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
As television drama, Generation War is unquestionably effective. As dramatized history, it is pretty questionable.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The A.V. Club by Ben Kenigsberg
By conveniently exempting its protagonists from ideology or culpability, Generation War feels less like a reckoning than a dodge: Yes, your grandparents may have been Nazis—but they could have been these nice people, too.
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Generation War holds the line admirably in showing how totalitarianism corrupts almost everything in its path, individual responsibility included, and creates an appalling space where sadists and conformists alike can flourish and break every rule of war at will.
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New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme
The densely plotted Generation War sweeps past implausibilities and offers the can’t-put-it-down qualities of a superior airport novel; its last third is affecting. But a bold confrontation with the past? Not so much.
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It plays like a conventional melodrama with better-than-average production values.
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Portland Oregonian by Marc Mohan
While it's an effective memoriam for the well-meaning Germans whose lives were ruined by Hitler's mad dream, the refusal of Generation War to focus on any other sort of German makes it both dramatically and historically suspect.
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Village Voice by Michelle Orange
Generation War seeks the epic, creating multiple, lavishly realized worlds and moving with confidence between them. What it finds of both history and its individuals is less complete.
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Generation War never becomes great, but it overcomes its stiff start in large part due to its scope.
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Overly melodramatic but fairly engrossing.
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Slant Magazine by Steve Macfarlane
The perverse thrill of seeing less-than-popular considerations of Nazism on screen fades hurriedly to the old ache of seeing any kind of questions about Nazism answered noxiously.