Simon Is Wired Into 'Generation Kill'.(Television program review)

By Marisa Guthrie

Like his prior HBO series, his new one explores the blunders of bureaucracy

I have a certain amount of indifference to the idea of the average viewer," says David Simon.

After all, he did create The Wire , which mined the underside of Baltimore to expose the desolation of the American dream, not exactly a show for the masses.

Simon's latest journey out of the ordinary is Generation Kill , a dizzyingly realistic examination of military culture, a distinct milieu with its own at times impenetrable language and codes. The seven-hour HBO miniseries is an adaptation of Rolling Stone journalist Evan Wright's Iraq War diary. …