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Masters of the Air: Hanks and Spielberg’s spectacular war story is the first must-watch show of 2024

This mesmerising white-knuckle ride stars Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Ncuti Gatwa and more as pilots taking to the skies – and trying to make it out alive

They threw somewhere between $250m and $300m at it, which always works, and they assembled an unbelievable cast: Austin Butler, who you will remember from sending himself mad playing Elvis in a film that turned out to just be a music video, is one of the leads opposite Callum Turner, who is about to be the UK’s most Googled man. It’s amazing that anyone just walks around looking like Austin Butler – he is magnetically good-looking, almost breathtakingly so, in an old-school gravity-absorbing way you thought they stopped making in the 50s – and he prowls around Masters of the Air, purring every line into Callum Turner’s ear. Band of Brothers (land) and its sister series The Pacific(sea) did the same thing Masters of the Air (sky) is doing: costing a lot of money, having an impeccable cast, being very good, and, crucially, toeing a careful line.

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