Band of Brothers E08 'The Last Patrol' - FULL REACTION!

Hopefully some time during today

Sonny Mike Olsen

Yes. They are the real men of easy company.

David Winters

The contemporary interviews are with the actual vets, not actors, right?

bwr

When can we expect episode 9?

Robin Fredriksson

Man. Why We Fight is the most emotionally taxing episode. Be ready!

Shawn Lewis

I guess it's more brutal on an emotional level, and it's generally a bit darker, but I think it should be fine for Kat to watch.

Niamh

I would love to watch The Pacific with them. But its quite a bit darker. I dont think its gorier really, but its pretty dark. I love how it centers on what the war does to the soldiers internally.

I wish the same, but it would be very hard on Kat as it is more brutal than BoB. Maybe Sonny and his Dad can watch it.

Catherine LW

Well you know your reactors are into the episode when some guys fall in the water and one screams out and they both go SSHHHHHHHH!!!! That was great. Not my favorite episode but how can you not love Winters are he tells his men he's not going to risk their lives on a 2nd meaning less patrol. I also love Webster's speech at the end about how we really can't understand what they went through unless you've been through it yourself.

Mark Valverde

Guys, we need to have them watch The Pacific, 10 part series made by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks as well!

Mike Vasconcelos

I believe Stephen Ambrose, who wrote the book Band of Brothers is based on, initially began his interest in Easy Company after reading Web’s Diary

Doug Weldin

This episode was all thanks to Webster and his diaries and notes that he took while serving. Also, I’m related to dick winters lol. He’s my grandfathers brother. Never knew the guy unfortunately.

David Winters

He was offered and turned down several advancement opportunities. He did not agree with the war and only went to document his journey. This whole episode was based off of his many diaries and articles he wrote while serving. That’s why he was looked down on many times.

David Winters

The scene where the guys are standing there and you can hear the wounded German soldier screaming from across the river..... Go back and turn the volume up loud and listen. It's actually Tom Hanks yelling, an audio clip from Cast Away.

EmwunGarand

A little insight into Private Roy Cobb. They make him out to be the drunk, whiney guy who nobody really liked in this show and especially this episode but he was, by many accounts a absolute stud of a soldier. Major Winters goes out of his way to say it in his memoirs. He did have a mean streak though as he was court martialed at one point during the war after assaulting Lt. Foley.

JDP11

The families of Easy Company vets were brought out to see some of the production. The only souvenir the daughter of the family I know brought back was no exaggeration about 50 pictures of an increasingly annoyed looking Colin Hanks on a ferry in the English Channel. Like big smiles in the first pics to smaller smiles, and then him just looking over the railing pretending not to notice by the end!

Doug Weldin

Wow, Winters is the ultimate commander. It's wonderful to see the respect that he's earned and the respect he has for his men. Also, I hope I'm not the only one who felt very tense at that shower scene in the middle of a town that's being shelled? I think that's the definition of being vulnerable.

bwr

The ring Jones was securing was his West Point Academy ring.

Richard Blain Russom

Great reaction! I hit like before I even watch it. Sadly, Lt. Jones, played by Colin Hanks, was killed in a Jeep accident in Germany in 1947. I loved how Winters told the men to get a full night’s sleep and report to him in the morning about not getting any live prisoners. Then Nixon says, “A new way to fight the war, I think you’re on to something there”. 😂

Catherine LW

One thing you need to understand about Webster was as far as I can gather the other men saw him as a "Mr Know it All". He would be apparently a little too free in advertising his higher education and the like to the point that it seemed to the rest of Easy that he thought he was better than them.

Richard Blain Russom

I'm sure that was his West Point ring that Jones was putting away.

Stephanie Bedworth

Just as a suggestion, you should watch the whole into (I know it's kinda long) before Episode 10, and you can really see the journey they took. It adds a lot of context to the ending

Nicholas Rothert

The next one is the one you will need to mentally prepare for.

Richard Blain Russom

Yeah, what makes the show work really well is how they'll focus on different perspectives depending on the theme. Next episode is really good and we get a perspective from someone we haven't followed for an episode: Nixon.

VoDomino

Actually episode 7 focused more on Lipton.

Radwar

Be prepared for Episode 9, it's really tough, but possibly the best hour of TV ever made.

Nicholas Rothert

I second this. I love the way you two dig into Band of Brothers and you both seem to appreciate it. The Pacific is a little different than BoB but is also a phenomenal mini series.

JDP11

I'm really hoping that you continue this over into The Pacific, I know you probably have a tonne of requests on your plate but please consider it!

Ryan Andrew Sanderson