I had hopes this would be a good period piece concerning Great Britain and the middle east in the 60s. Instead what I got was a soap opera. While there were many problems with colonial power and the role Great Britain played depicted here is decadence and arrogance. The writers demonstrated their disdain for the British soldiers of the time. We are expected to believe the SAS was anything but capable, that British soldiers in general are mean crass creatures devoid of character and that wives stationed with their spouses are weak drunkards hoping from bed to bed. They natives are depicted as freedom fighters doing what they must to secure their freedom.Rubbish. Very little factual history is shown. And, though I thing Essie Davis is a fine actress her role as an independent American reporter is not only unbelievable in the extreme as a period character but her "American accent" has to be the worst lo have encountered in a long time. Really, really glaringly bad. I have the is a 4 but honestly could have gone lower. I have no fondness for the entertainment industry penchant for rewriting history.

None of the combat scenes are historically accurate. The use of "over and out" for radio communications indicates that not one of the writers, show runners, or actors had any experience with actual military communications via radio.The huge plot holes (the SAS guys from on the other side of the mountain morph into guys from the base (??????? what??????) and nonsensical plot points in episodes 2-4, along with 3 or 4 soap opera tropes per episode (god, I fully expect an amnesia based character at any moment...)This thing is total dreck

As I lived in Aden for 2 years as an army brat aged 9/10; dad was the RSM of the Royal Anglians I was really looking forward to The Last Post. I have some vivid memories of my time there. I was even blown up in the grenade attack of the open air Cinema in Waterloo Barracks but I must admit I was really disappointed with the whole unbelievable story line. I cannot remember seeing many MPs, but there were hundreds of kids, of all ages so any Christmas party would have been mobbed.When the troubles picked up in 1965 free roaming was a thing of the past but all married quarters were patrolled 24/7. Us kids had a great time, and our favorite past time was collecting cap badges from squaddies.I agree with the comments made by several other reviewers about the SAS mission. It would never happen, the SAS would never have MPs attached to a mission. And their reaction to enemy fire was just completely wrong. It was clear to me that the advisers for this program were nowhere near the real action, shame!

Unlike several other reviewers, i didn't serve in Aden, and don't know what types of weapon the RMP used or what sorts of planes people few in on. However, i didn't watch this series in order to discover such details, and if you do, I fear that as well as being disappointed you may be missing the point. This is an entertainment, but also an allegory -- on the one hand a tale of decline and fall, on the other a tale of compromised decency. Evelyn Waugh meets the evil in war, as it were.If military verisimilitude is your thing, this may not work for you; but if you liked Parade's End, the Tudors, and Brideshead Revisited (as I did), I think it will.