“Masters of the Air” follows the combating males of the one centesimal Bomb Group (nicknamed the “Bloody Hundredth”) as they battle the Nazis throughout World Conflict II. The present is loaded with characters, however the primary focus is totally on two greatest buddies — Main Gale Cleven (Austin Butler) and Main John Egan (Callum Turner). Gale is nicknamed “Buck” whereas John is known as “Bucky,” and the truth that they’ve related nicknames is concerning the extent of their character growth. The 2 leads do one of the best that they will with the fabric, and Turner manages to face out with John’s extra self-destructive tendencies. Butler, in the meantime, remains to be doing his “Elvis” voice, to the purpose the place I’m wondering if that is simply what he appears like. In any case, it is unimaginable to hearken to his dialogue and not consider him doing an Elvis impersonation.
Different characters come and go, like Nate Mann as Main Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal, a self-proclaimed Jew from Brooklyn who cannot shake the horrors of conflict. Barry Keoghan pops up doing a really dangerous New Yawk accent as Lt. Curtis Biddick. After which there’s Anthony Boyle as Main Harry Crosby, a navigator who’s susceptible to air illness. For causes which are by no means fairly clear, Crosby serves because the narrator of the present, and his narration, by way of no fault of the actor, is clumsy and exposition-heavy, to the purpose the place you possibly can’t assist however want it had been minimize completely — the present merely would not want it. The second-to-last episode brings in among the Tuskegee Airmen so as to add some much-needed variety to the story, however this looks like an afterthought. Merely put, none of those males are notably fascinating, and it is a chore to observe them by way of the hells of battle.