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  • War in the Air: Twelve O'Clock High and Masters of the Air

    03/24/2024 5:51:48 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 52 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 23 Mar 2024 | Rick McGinnis
    According to Apple, the premiere episode of Masters of the Air, the "sequel" to Band of Brothers and The Pacific, was the most-watched debut ever on their streaming platform. Which is proof that there's a robust audience for these technically cutting-edge but dramatically old-fashioned World War Two dramas, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin and Tom Hanks' Playtone. It's hard not to see the appeal in a world full of moral equivalence and antiheroes so compromised they'd be called villains in a different era. None of these shows deny that war is hell; they go out of their way (with the...