JAG S1-S8

I guess this sort of thing is bound to be heavy on the jingoism and right-wing cobblers .... you expect that, but it really goes beyond the pale. Mostly it's just there for people who obviously get oddly excited by uniforms and people saluting, which is all good fun, I suppose. Sadly it's all done on a budget so the acting is wooden, the scripts shallow and unconvincing and most of the stuff gluing it together nicked from stock footage without even a crude attempt at CGI to make the continuity work (others have mentioned details like plane types and ship numbers, but even the basics ... a plane has a sodding great hole blasted in it and the next minute a mint example lands at Miramar, before, frames later, the bruised pilot is hauled out of the wreckage). All very laughable, but does it matter? well yes it does, the political agenda strays into the story lines, and google about, people are taking this nonsense seriously. A few episodes deal with sexual harassment, but in such a one dimensional unquestioning way, all trying to refight the tailhook controversy, but so transparently and obnoxiously they actually show whoever is behind this appalling stuff learned entirely the wrong lesson. Just watched a ridiculous journey into Northern Irish terrorism. Belfast seems to be some sort of downtown New York with 50s London taxis and buses (hey, you can get a bus from the RUC HQ direct to Carnaby street!). RUC officers seem to have dodgy Cork accents, while the IRA spoke with voices I'd normally expect to hear from an apprenticeboy. Everyone had a nice tie and tweedy suit. Of course the English have to be baby-eating facists, and the visiting Americans can cut through decades of complex intrigue and hatred to solve the case in mere minutes, hampered only by this British obsession with not allowing them to carry guns. I'd love to see the producers have the guts to try the same sort of insulting nonsense set in downtown Jerusalum. The characters in this thing are so one-dimensional, the scripts predictable, and the whole thing so cheaply chucked together. I watch and love it, like a Jerry Springer show in which the participants haven't yet cottoned on ...

The episode about stealing of Su-27 fighter was FULL of errors regarding Russia - I would say stereotypes. What can I say about steam railroad - those stopped running about 70-80 years ago! And the hats for winter (ushanki) weared in summer!. And Mercedes as taxi! American producers/directors need to escape the stereotypes.

The great pretender ... has managed to bluff his way through numerous tv series as the writer of pure fiction and tales that never happened... his lousy out of date crap still lives in spite of himself

I only watched 2 or 3 of the shows, and I do not like JAG! I see politically correct undertones, with a couple of the characters, mixed with over the top Hollywood plot twists. Kills the realism, I wanted to see. The show is a mix of the movies "A few good men" and "Top Gun" The show with the model style actors is like a Paul Mitchell commercial. The constant infighting, and personal problems would make the military nonfunctional. I find the show more dramatic than real. I hope the real military is not like this or we would be in trouble. TV is too standoffish and formulated. I wish Hollywood could be more imaginative, and less formulated. Too busy trying to push a cut and dry social message. The creativity, realism, excitement and even likable personalities is missing. I would like to see a more human side to the show, with dualities of the good, bad, and grey area of life. I know there are bad people in the world, but the show is too cut and dry like Walker Texas Ranger. Save a hour and watch another show

I knew I was going to hate this show the minute I saw the commercial for the pilot movie. It casts a boatload (pardon the pun) of shame upon the Navy, which suffered enough from Tailhook, as well as being woefully inaccurate. First, another way of describing the Navy's JAG Corps is "Navy Bar Association." It's just the lawyers. They don't have any investigative power; that's reserved for the Naval Investigative Service. Second, JAG lawyers are staff officers, or "rear area heroes." They stay behind the lines. Our hero Harm began his career as an aviator, which is classified as an unrestricted line officer or "command" posting. As someone who nearly joined the Fleet as an aviator myself, I find it very hard to believe that someone who wanted to fly as much as Harm did initially would chuck it all away to be a lawyer when he could have been recycled into a naval flight officer, maintenance officer, or go into surface or sub warfare (all unrestricted line postings). The only time I've even heard of a fighter jock becoming a lawyer is in the case of James Huston, author of BALANCE OF POWER, and he did after leaving the Fleet. I still can't figure out how this show made it past the pilot ep, much less multiple seasons. Must be due to how good-looking the cast is. I feel that this show should be cancelled immediately and all evidence of its existence destroyed.

This was an unusual product for the mid 90s. While most American pop culture was shifting from the shallowness and right-wing tinged culture of the 1980s (thank God!!) this show continued an ugly 80s hangover. If you thought that Red Dawn and Top Gun were artistic films with highly sophisticated dialogue and deep sociological insight then this is the TV show for you. Hypocritical, hyperbolic jingoism. This is such a TERRIBLE show! Full of brainwash and completely 2-faced. In 1 episode they busted horrible, evil marijuana smugglers who were destroying and addicting America's youth. Then 10 minutes later they engage in a healthy contest to drink each other under the table with healthy, life giving alcohol. COMPLETE GARBAGE!!

It's difficult to overlook this show's lack of originality and predilection for mishmash. Just a TV version of A Few Good Men with dragged out courtroom scenes and implausible action sequences for "variety". Super lawyers flying jets, parachuting into enemy territory, exchanging gunfire with opposing forces, and being fluent in ten languages? Good God! Far more ridiculous is that many of the episodes not only duplicate story lines of other films, but blatantly include their footage as well. One episode about the IRA ripped off numerous clips from In The Name of The Father. Another, where David Elliot is held prisoner in China, was taken smack out of Red Corner. I even recognized recycled segments from The Hunt for Red October and Crimson Tide during several submarine episodes. After these major flaws, it's barely worth mentioning the immature dialogue and amateurish special effects, but there you have it. One star out of four.

This show is about a bunch of US people doing lawyer stuff and occasionally shooting at somebody. It's fairly standard Law & Order kind of thing, except it is centered about the US military (don't know if any specific branch). Sometimes they travel around the world to see the sights and they show us wonderful real-world locations. NOT! Glue together a church made from adobe, some rural roads, donkeys and a lot of people dressed in ponchos called Paco or Maria. Say it is Lima, Peru and mention Sendero Luminoso somewhere, and you have an instant in-location scenario! If anything, this show is only one of many myopic examples of US knowledge of foreign culture. I mean, c'mon! just look at some pictures of a city that's bigger than any on the States except NY, and by a short margin! TV writers should travel more, or at least do some research instead of pulling world facts out of their butts. What should be a dead ringer of the mistakes is that everyone in that ep is Mexican! But it's not surprising that nobody watching the show noticed. I mean, what's the difference? Mexican, Peruvian, Cuban, Spanish... they're all kinda... "latino" right?

I've seen jag before and it was funny, unreal and very proamerican. But the last episode I saw, at least half of it (couldn't watch anymore) was as disappointing as well as stupid, inaccurate and totally offensive. The story of this episode (I can't remember the title/number) was about a pilot, that shot an armored car, because he thought that the Serbs were in it. It had a flag on it and wasn't shooting at anyone ;> Well let me tell you why is this very wrong: Even though I'm not a Serb (I'm Slovenian) and I know very well about mass murders or genocide that happened in the 90-is, it is very clear that: 1. Russian and Yugoslavian flag do have the same colours but NOT the same flag. Comm'on, don't you remember the red star? in the MIDDLE of the flag?? 2. Killing someone just because he's of a certain nationality is wrong, even if, at the time, he's involved in a large scale war. Yeah, than the character stated that he had to kill them, because they were probably headed to make another mass burial site. Aham... like only the Serbs did that. Wake up! There was no good/evil here! Just too much propaganda, just like in USA and Cuba nowadays... I don't get it - I know that "history is written by winners" but here was nothing to win. The real truth about the wars aggressors will show: a) when enough time passes, so most people involved in it will be dead and b) that "evildoers" weren't only the Serbs but all nations that were part of that big old Yugoslavia.

JAG is one of the better military dramas on television. The cast is as good as the weekly story lines and production value. Although many are not a fan of the series, its hard to say that the series hasn't produced a number of quality episodes. Also, Catherine Bell is amazing! Eye candy with a pulse, Catherine Bell is fun to look at and can act. Her Demi Moore character as the pretty but witty lawyer adds to the series. Many leading women who are considered to have amazing physical assets are not always terrific actors. Catherine Bell is an exception. Although she is a supporting character in JAG, she could have been the star of the series and had just as good reviews. JAG is a fun and also serious television show that has a strong audience base of fans.