This splendidly hardhitting depiction of life in the advertising business came some time ago.

The camera became the dominant source of accurate depiction of life.

But hip-hop has always been about attention-grabbing and graphic depictions of life's seamier side.

Yet the show has such a tangible tenderness about it that remain absorbed and end up touched by its depiction of lives all too close to our own.

Both are seen as reasonably accurate depictions of life in the army at those times, and both are centred on a fictional infantry regiment.