Jake Kleinman

Jake Kleinman is a critic and journalist whose writing has appeared in Inverse, The Ringer, Polygon, Mashable, Vice, Rolling Stone, Inc. Magazine, Men's Health, HuffPost and more.

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'Rogue Heroes': The Best TV War Epic You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

British showrunner Steven Knight’s criminally overlooked Special Air Service series is a World War II saga unlike any other.

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