Generation Kill, Sundays, 10pm, FX.

Generation Kill continues tonight and it is turning out to be another sublime piece of television from HBO. Written and produced by the creaters of The Wire it follows a group of marines who are at the forefront of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. If you haven't seen The Wire then get on that quickly, if you have you will be familiar with the open end forumalic style of the show. Unlike most U.S. shows the structure of the episode doesn't have to adhere to adbreaks and the need to wrap each episode up in 1 hour. Generation Kill like The Wire is a novel and each episode is a chapter, which unfolds steadily and at its own pace. Doing so allows incredible characterisation and evolution of the world on screen. Generation Kill is based on the book of the same name which was adapted from a series of editorials in Rolling Stone magazine written by Evan Wright. Wright was inbedded within the marines and his accounts of war provide an unsanctioned view of the reality and hardships that these marines had to fight under. The lack of equipment is staggering (No desert camoflage, not enough batteries to operate night equipment to name two) The ineptitude of superior officers is horrifying. It is a stunning series that should now be the barometer of all future tv or film projects based on the Iraq war.