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- 2019
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- 2019
- TV-MA
- HULU
Summary Set during World War II, Air Force bombardier Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) and his fellow soldiers are faced with absurd bureaucratic rules and decisions by Colonel Cathcart (Kyle Chandler), Scheisskopf (George Clooney) and Major de Coverley (Hugh Laurie) in this miniseries based on Joseph Heller's novel of the same name.
- 2019
- TV-MA
- HULU
- 2019
- TV-MA
- HULU
Catch-22 (2019)
Season 1 Premiere: 2019
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7.0
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Summary Set during World War II, Air Force bombardier Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) and his fellow soldiers are faced with absurd bureaucratic rules and decisions by Colonel Cathcart (Kyle Chandler), Scheisskopf (George Clooney) and Major de Coverley (Hugh Laurie) in this miniseries based on Joseph Heller's novel of the same name.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
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68% Positive
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29% Mixed
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3% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
70
68% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
29% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Bringing this work to TV was a risky move, but the finished product is exceedingly well done and, at a time when government gobbledygook has trumped all previous notions of unbelievability, perhaps more urgent than anyone could have predicted.
Clooney’s adaptation is immediately impressive – visually deserving of a bigger than a laptop screen – with a cohesive, arid palette and shots ranging wildly in scope from resonant closeup to sweeping landscape. But it takes a couple of episodes to settle into the show’s polarizing rhythm, which is less a film-making issue than the high-level entry to the source material’s cunning conceit.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 74 User Ratings
7.0
76% Positive
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12% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 74 User Ratings
7.0
76% Positive
56 Ratings
56 Ratings
12% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
12% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
If you enjoyed the book then you will enjoy the show. The tone is a little to dark and dramatized for me at times, and it jumps scenes a little to often which I imagine for people who didn't read the books to be jarring. Other than that I cannot think of anything I would change.
Yossarian, Major Major, and Milo were perfectly cast and played. I wish it had been 7 or 8 episodes long to fit in more of the book, but I will GLADLY take what we got. To me this is the best thing George Clooney has ever directed, it is a very good adaptation of a nearly impossible book to make into a show or movie. It is witty, fun, and able to describe war in ways no other book or show ever could.
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Surprisingly effective miniseries. ... Even if you haven't read the book or can't quite recall all the participants, it comes back to you, but it's still a challenge to differentiate everyone. Some fans will no doubt wish certain characters had bigger roles or might have minor irritations over how things were condensed, but overall the pacing is strong and the inclusion thorough.
Six hours may be an hour too many given the repetitive nature of the plot (the required mission count rises, then rises again and again) but star Christopher Abbott makes for a likeable, relatable Yossarian. It’s sometimes difficult to tell the supporting flyers apart but as the episodes unroll their personalities come through a bit more.
Good (and good-looking) production, but without contemporary relevance, urgency or edge.
Some bright spots aside—moments of inspired physical comedy from the erstwhile Dr. Doug Ross; a properly crackling translation of the promotion and closed-door policy of the fortunately named Major Major Major (Lewis Pullman)—settle instead for a tone that’s less about the maddening pointlessness of war and more about its bloody horrors, complete with mournful instrumental score.
All of the zany genius of Heller’s 1961 best-selling novel has been sapped from Hulu’s new six-episode adaptation, which begins streaming Friday, May 17. And the humor is nowhere to be found.
This is a war story, and it includes the characters from Joseph Heller's novel, but it's not Catch-22. Absolutely none of the delicious, malicious humor of that work is in this misbegotten, boring six-episode mess. Inexplicable fascination with the one-joke Milo Minderbinder minor subplot. Why does this exist? As flawed as the Mike Nichols movie was, it at least came close to capturing the sprawling, plotless pointlessness of Heller's book. This thing just sits there like a turd. Infuriating.
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Production Company:
- Paramount Television
- Anonymous Content
- Filmways
- Smokehouse Pictures
- Yoki
Initial Release Date: 2019
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 5 Nominations
Critics Choice Awards
• 3 Nominations
