The Hurt Locker ceremony, it won six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director for Bigelow (the first woman to win this award), and Best Original Screenplay for Boal. "The Hurt Locker" is based on accounts of Mark Boal, a freelance journalist who was embedded with an American bomb squad in the war in Iraq for two weeks in 2004. The director Kathryn Bigelow was familiar with Boal's work before his experiences, having adapted one of his "Playboy" articles as the short-lived television series "The Inside" in 2002. When Boal was embedded with the squad, he accompanied its members 10 to 15 times a
The Hurt Locker, Part Two than just a fake kiss, describing it as "a hot makeout session." The A.V. Club's Brandon Nowalk panned the episode, stating that the episode "ultimately just does whatever the fuck it wants." Miranda Wicker from "TV Fanatic" had a mixed review of the episode, and said "I've basically given up on this show even kind of being grounded in reality after this ridiculous Sue-Loves-Klaine story. And yet I still find myself rooting for a ragtag bunch of underdogs." The Hurt Locker, Part Two "The Hurt Locker, Part Two" is the fifth episode of the sixth season of the American musical