While I'm not a huge fan of so much violence, I appreciate the non-comic-book realism. The dramatic elements all have their place, and I would have liked a deeper exploration of what soldiers (etc.) face back home, and how they do or do not fit back into civilian life. The characters are almost universally unpleasant but one could argue that that's an interesting approach.

The problem is that every scene is about 3x too long. (Seriously, almost every scene is 5 minutes or longer, which is just forever.) There's just not that much there there, with length masquerading as depth, so the pacing feels glacial. This would have made a much better 5-part miniseries.