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MASTERS OF THE AIR – Review by Susan Granger

March 27, 2024March 31, 2024 Susan Granger Anthony Boyle, apple tv series, Army Air Corps, Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan, Callum Turner, Masters of the Air, Steven Spielberg, tom hanks

From Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, the same production team that gave us Band of Brothers (2001) and The Pacific (2010), comes a new, nine-part series Masters of the Air about the heroic W.W.II pilots who set the stage for D-Day. The 8th Air Force, 100th Bomber Group – known as the “Bloody Hundredth” because of their high casualty rate – was stationed at England’s Thorpe Abbotts Base. In less than six months in 1943, 34 out of 36 crews were shot down. Their high casualty count was attributed to their orders to fly daylight missions over Nazi-occupied territory, while the British stealthily dropped their bombs at night.

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SEE – Review by Susan Granger

August 23, 2021August 28, 2021 Susan Granger alfre woodard, apple tv series, Hera Hilmar, jason momoa, sci fi, see, Sylvia Hoeks

This dystopian sci-fi fantasy/drama series begins its second season with a third already in production. The opening credits are a montage of nerve endings that, as the volume increases, form various shapes. As star Alfre Woodward notes: “The characters in season two do not see the past coming to haunt them, but the past coming to be resolved…See has so many parallels with what is going on with the world – or even what could happen. There’s the idea of the masses laying trust in prophetic figures.”