hancock4
7/25/2014 2:08:00 AM
On Thursday, July 24, 2014 4:22:55 PM UTC-4, Obveeus wrote:
> That trailer makes me lean more towards not even bothering to sample this soap opera.
I saw the trailer and it appeared to be a good story about life of the people behind the fence at Los Alamos. (See my posts on this). It did not seem "soapy". There was of course drama in the lives of the families, which has been written about extensively in memoirs. Based on the trailer, the show follows real life experiences, not fictional hokey melodrama.
Los Alamos was a unique community--highly intelligent academic people locked behind a fence for the duration, under strict army control which they resented.
It certainly seems some of the austerity policies were not done because of actual scarcity, but because Gen. Groves wanted the families to feel the pain of the war. Groves got things gone, but he was a bit of a sadist. (After the war, he didn't have much future in the Army on account of pissing off so many people.)