Carrier: Season 1

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PBS | Season Premiere Date: April 27, 2008

Summary: The documentary series follows the lives of those who live and work on the U.S.S. Nimitz.

Genre(s): Drama, Reality, Documentary

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E10. Full Circle
Air Date: August 20, 2008
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S1:E9. Get Home-itis
Air Date: August 13, 2008
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S1:E8. True Believers
Air Date: August 8, 2008

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Gloria Goodale

Compelling. Read full review

Diane Werts

The 10 hours of PBS' immersive miniseries Carrier are frank and intimate, hard-hitting and heart-rending, rocking (with hit songs) and rolling (when the ship pitches so sharply, planes can't land). Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

That balance of viewpoints--positive and negative, tragic and comic--is what makes Carrier such extraordinary viewing. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

With its scenic photography, slick editing and relentless pop-rock soundtrack, Carrier has the feel of a movie, or maybe the world's longest recruitment video. It's also an engrossing, rewarding and addictive study of personal endurance and sacrifice. Read full review

Heather Havrilesky

With a careful mix of respect, curiosity and humor, the filmmakers offer a colorful and surprisingly nuanced tour of the day-to-day operations of the USS Nimitz during a six-month deployment in 2005, from California to Hong Kong, Guam, Bahrain and Perth, Australia. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

But even at 10 hours, Carrier feels cursory and incomplete. That's not to say that at most any given moment it's uninteresting--it's quite watchable--just that it doesn't add up to as much as it should. Read full review

Tom Shales

Those who wade into Carrier might not want to be quitters, either, but after four or five hours, they may find they'd really rather be checking out who's survived on "American Idol." Read full review

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MikeR.

May 1, 2008

Engrossing, informative, and well-balanced.