PBS serves up another masterpiece documentary series for sweeps. CARRIER documents life aboard USS Nimitz during a Gulf cruise. This is excellent television.
No narration, no slant, no glitz. Just an inside view of Navy life on a CV. Exotic ports of call, not so friendly ports of call, changes of destination midcruise. Good officers, bad officers. Happy enlisted, disgruntled enlisted. It's all there for you to see.
From my own experience, which was somewhat different from CV duty, it's a very realistic look at Navy life. Young kids, some with their head screwed on straight some not, experiencing life away from home with people they hardly know and dealing with all the hardships and challenges that entails.
I was surprised to see Mel Gibson as Executive Producer of this project. Acting and DWI arrest dashcam aside, he is right up there with Hanks, Speilberg, and Howard at the top of quality production people in Hollywood. It shows in CARRIER.
The ten part series runs thru saturday on PBS.
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