Okay, it gets pretty sketchy trying to come up with pithy ways to work the word "binge" into the titles of these things and man, does this one show it... sheesh, I apologize. LOL!
I do recall bingeing this miniseries back in the Netflix DVD rental days about 15 years ago or so but I found it available on YouTube and figured I'd give it another go. Of course I'd also seen it during its original broadcast run on ABC back in February 1983 over the course of several nights with my fam on the living room TV on Pearl Street when I was 19. Winds of War was an epic TV event, like Roots and this other historical miniseries I posted about a couple years ago. It got a lot of hype and in my opinion it was well worth it as its production value still holds up in quality and sheer scope even today. Sure it's old fashioned and melodramatic by modern standards and, even for them days, extremely mono-racial (I think I saw only two black people in the thing in bit roles as servants). And the acting is a bit archaic in retrospect. But even then I hated Ali McGraw. Ugh! She fucking can't act! God she sucks so much, she almost ruins this whole show! Beside that, it's a good little nostalgic look at a very soap opera way of dealing with the outbreak of a world war. Kinda like nowadays in that respect though, I guess.