From what I saw they made it clear that self-interest was a major motivator for the anti-war movement, that the North's seeking unification through war was a waste. The purity of the anti-war movement and Ho's team were two "shibboleths of the Left" that weren't reinforced.
He even has Peter Coyote say that the war was “begun in good faith by decent people out of fateful misunderstandings, American overconfidence and Cold War miscalculations.” Plenty of leftists in the 60s and 70s would have disagreed with the "in good faith by decent people" part.
If you compare the series to what it could have been rather than to what you or I might have made, it may not look quite as bad as the critics say.
I agree. They made it exceptionally clear that there was a lot of support on the campuses until they started drafting white kids from the suburbs.
I did not realize the lopsided casualty rates among the black troops in the early days of the war. After watching that those two things, it was clear that the majority of the early protestors were pussy kids trying to avoid the draft.
I always felt that way—and i was a kid when this was happening.