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Critic Reviews
Jan 25, 2024
Season 1 Review:
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.
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TV Guide MagazineJan 25, 2024
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Masters of the Air completes a triumphant WWII trilogy that like Ken Burns' eloquent documentaries, will stand the test of time. [29 Jan - 18 Feb 2024, p.6]
Radio TimesJan 24, 2024
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If you are a fan of the genre, or simply not opposed to it, then Masters of the Air should undoubtedly be on your watchlist, and high up it too - for its championing of young talent, its emotional core, its narrative strength, its historical intrigue and its breathtaking action. Consider those lofty expectations well and truly met.
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The Mercury NewsJan 24, 2024
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While “Masters of the Air” will get compared to HBO’s “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific,” it stands on its own, even if it doesn’t as often reach the same dramatic heights. Regardless, it’s a polished and well-crafted epic that earns its wings as well as your respect, and undoubtedly will leave you with a big lump in your throat.
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Jan 24, 2024
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While it takes some time to get there, Masters of the Air deftly tells a compelling tale. It honestly and sometimes painfully displays the trauma soldiers at war endure through heartfelt and genuine stories of camaraderie, determination, and sacrifice. This is pretty much all any veteran could ask for.
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Jan 26, 2024
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"Masters of the Air" is largely a character drama and there are a lot of characters—too many, as it happens, for the earliest losses to register quite as profoundly with a viewer as the later ones do. But the strategy adopted by Mr. Orloff, and rooted in Mr. Miller's account, is to make death in war freshly alarming by making it disinterested and indiscriminate. And, frequently, gruesome. .... And the lessons are made all the more poignant.
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Jan 25, 2024
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It is meant on the one hand to achieve a high level of realism and on the other to echo the romanticism of the pre-revisionist World War II films that producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman would have grown up watching rerun on television. One would say it succeeds on both those accounts, even as they tend to fight one another.
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Jan 25, 2024
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Missed opportunities and mid-stream course corrections suggest a better, more coherent version of “Masters of the Air” could have been constructed. But fans of WWII, brothers-in-arms action-adventure tales will likely be satisfied regardless thanks to the aerial derring-do amidst time spent with the four lead characters.
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Jan 25, 2024
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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.
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Jan 25, 2024
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It is an old-school tribute to the Greatest Generation and to those who fought against fascism — wait for the hoisting of the American flag in the finale — and as such it can be moving. But the story, which takes place between 1943 and 1945, is not as carefully paced and effectively written as the previous two miniseries. “Masters of the Air” is a good, but not great, conclusion to the trilogy.
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Jan 24, 2024
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There is much to admire about “Masters of the Air.” .... But it also stretches out a little too much. Some critical elements feel a bit tacked on. Some of the air battles suffer at the hands of sometimes-janky CGI. The point of view wanders. For all that, it’s really good, but not quite great. It is, however, important.
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