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Masters of the Air Series-Premiere Recap: Those Who Will
The Spielberg-Hanks latest series introduces us to a plethora of handsome pilots played by Brits.
Showrunner John Orloff seems uniquely qualified to spin Miller’s deeply researched, small-print doorstop into nine hours of stirring onscreen aerial derring-do, having been a writer on Band of Brothers and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole. Just that quickly, director Cary Joji Fukunaga, who’s been keeping a low profile in the last couple of years after allegations of abusing his power that are entirely unrelated to the fact he killed James Bond, cuts from this warm, inviting bar to the flaming husk of a B-24, where Bucky, in the co-pilot seat, is issuing instructions — orders, you’d call them, were he not a mere observer in this crew — to dive into a cloud bank to extinguish a fire in one of the bomber’s four engines. “We came from every corner of the country with a common purpose: to bring the war to Hitler’s doorstep.” It’s a good line, and it sets up the contrast between these newly minted American airmen and their English allies, who, at this point, have already had Der Fuhrer on their doorstep for nearly four years.
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