Netflix's Marines (2025) w/ Sam Carliner | Ep. 52

Podcast: Bang-Bang Podcast · Van and Lyle are Bang-Bang

Opublikowano: 2025-12-01

Van and Lyle are joined by returning guest Sam Carliner to take on Marines, Netflix’s new 250th-anniversary docuseries, an unmistakable propaganda piece (it’s literally featured on the official Marine Corps website) that nonetheless reveals more candor than the institution intended. Directed by Chelsea Yarnell, whose style veers into Riefenstahl-lite, the series moves through the familiar mythology: Marines as the “meanest, baddest motherfuckers,” war as manhood, China as the next “bloody” proving ground. But between the clichés, something truer keeps slipping out. The Marines themselves come across not as caricatures but as young people grasping for purpose...