The Last Post

TV Mini Series
2017
15
1h

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7.2/10

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Jessie Buckley and Jeremy Neumark Jones in The Last Post (2017)

"The Last Post" is set during the social and political unrest of the mid-sixties, in the simmering heat of Aden, Yemen, and centers on the lives of a unit of Royal Military Police officers and their families.

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Aden 1965. This is the story of a British army unit quashing a Yemeni fight for independence in the Middle East and the women and children who were there with them.Aden 1965. This is the story of a British army unit quashing a Yemeni fight for independence in the Middle East and the women and children who were there with them.Aden 1965. This is the story of a British army unit quashing a Yemeni fight for independence in the Middle East and the women and children who were there with them.

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The BBC production crew was unable to obtain permission for the British Ministry of Defense to use the proper RMP crest for the production. They had to design a new crest that was at least 35% different from the real one.

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Referenced in The Simpsons: Krusty the Clown (2018)

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9/10

In case you were unsure, this is not a documentary

Unlike several other reviewers, i didn't serve in Aden, and don't know what types of weapon the RMP used or what sorts of planes people few in on.

However, i didn't watch this series in order to discover such details, and if you do, I fear that as well as being disappointed you may be missing the point. This is an entertainment, but also an allegory -- on the one hand a tale of decline and fall, on the other a tale of compromised decency. Evelyn Waugh meets the evil in war, as it were.

If military verisimilitude is your thing, this may not work for you; but if you liked Parade's End, the Tudors, and Brideshead Revisited (as I did), I think it will.