TV-MA | 6 episodes | Historical Drama | Nov. 13, 2022
The Special Air Service (SAS) is a rather pedestrian name for Britain’s celebrated special forces unit, but there is nothing mundane about the corps and its missions. In fiction, Batman’s butler, Alfred Pennyworth, is a veteran of the SAS and, in real-life, so is survival TV host Bear Grylls.
The chaps who founded it were an even more colorful lot. They were not exactly the “Dirty Dozen,” but they probably would have got along smashingly with team of Lee Marvin’s character.
Writer-creator Steven Knight is surprisingly faithful to the unit’s history in the wild and rollicking six-episode series “Rogue Heroes” (known as “SAS: Rogue Heroes” in the UK)….