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Masters of the Air
Season 1 Premiere: Jan 25, 2024
72
6.7
All Seasons
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 41 Critic Reviews
72
63% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
37% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 41 Critic Reviews
72
63% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
37% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Nearly a decade later, executive producers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks brought the companion series “The Pacific” to HBO, and now they present the spiritual sequel “Masters of the Air,” a nine-part series airing on Apple TV+ that proves to be a worthy third chapter in the trilogy. This is an epic, sprawling, pulse-pounding series.
Many will praise the series for offering up an ambitious spectacle, but we honestly believe that its success lies in its refusal to shy away from the humanity of war. Which is all to say: Watch this show.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 85 User Ratings
6.7
64% Positive
54 Ratings
54 Ratings
21% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
15% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 85 User Ratings
6.7
64% Positive
54 Ratings
54 Ratings
21% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
15% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
The series is massive, beautifully rendered and a reminder that war is murderous, gruesome and horrifically human.
Reservations aside, the series worked like gangbusters on me for a different reason: It’s focused on capturing what it looks like — what it means, really — to work toward a common goal. To feel a deep sense of responsibility for one another. As that plays out over nine episodes, you can’t help but reflect on the absence of these kinds of stories coming out of Hollywood.
This show is a descendant of programs that weren’t just “well-made,” they were revolutionary, feeling like nothing else on TV. You can’t say that about “Masters of the Air,” a show that’s fine, but these war heroes and the TV lineage into which the dramatization of their heroism falls deserve better than “fine.”
“Masters of the Air” is often absorbing and irresistable, even if it is not as compelling as the first two series. Part of the problem, especially in the first few episodes, is that there are so many characters, and battle after battle, that gets a bit confusing and repetitive.
There is a lot to like – the acting is top notch, the world-building immersive and the storytelling (what little there is of it) is succinct. But it’s too old-fashioned to compete with today’s prestige TV. What’s more, it’s not even trying to.
Serie magnífica sobre la segunda guerra mundial y el 100th grupo de bombarderos de la octava fuerza aérea.
Muy intensa, con mucha atención al detalle, aunque tiene algunos errores, pero te hace sentir lo que era subirse a un B-17 en 1943 e intentar bombardear Alemania.
Los últimos episodios pasan muy rápido para llegar al final de la guerra y se nota, y se desplaza más a los prisioneros de guerra que al bombardeo en sí.
Muy recomendada si te gustan, como a mí, los aviones y el combate aéreo.
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Giving it a 6 for Band of brothers and The pacific's sake.
Otherwise it is generally disappointing in terms of character depth,sense of urgency and nuances in the core struggle, which makes the show pale terribly in comparison to its two way superior predecesors.
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Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were behind the WWII shows Band of Brothers and The Pacific. They created this new series that looks at American bombers flying missions to destroy targets in German-occupied Europe. As expected, there's an enormous cast of young men, led by Callum Turner and Austin Butler. Sadly, so many characters mean that none of them get much focus. As a result, there's little real concern about the men and sometimes a question of who they are. The only exception would be the few who parachute behind enemy lines, but that's a small part of the story. The group scenes are often energetic, but cluttered without much narrative drive. What does stand out is the combat footage. Every episode revolves around a mission and the expected calamities, injuries and deaths that occur. The footage is often riveting, esp. with the speed of the aerial encounters. However, when this experience happens every episode, it loses some of the impact. Ultimately the whole thing becomes rather flat, lacking much depth in the characters and one blazing battle after another. (Review based on 6 of 9 one-hour eps)
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Fine, but uncompelling, due to the lacklustre characters and seeing repeated bombing runs just isn't that interesting as a scenario.
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Production Company:
- Amblin Television
- Apple Studios
- Parliament of Owls
- Playtone
Initial Release Date: Jan 25, 2024
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
