re: "Masters of the Air" | WWII Miniseries | Apple+ Trailer

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I don't understand why it was only 9 episodes. There should've been a training episode like BOB had because in Crosby's book the 100th was an absolute shite show before they were finally allowed to deploy.

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Saw somewhere else that they ran over budget by quite a bit, the series was supposed to be 10 episodes just like BoB and the Pacific. But they had the cut down on episode number and cram a lot into them.

Which is a shame as I think another episode or two, plus removing some of the side storylines like Crosby’s spy friend/love interest would’ve allowed them to more fully develop the stories they already had going and allow us to connect with the main characters better.

They end one of the episodes with Rosie Rosenthal being told the “bombers are gonna be the bait” and then proceeded to show exactly zero missions of that. D-Day is over in 1 minute of screen time. Lots of potential that they didn’t capitalize on.

All in all, BoB remains the best, and I’d put the Pacific over this as well. MotA isn’t a bad series, it’s still good, there just a lot holding it back from being great. Still a solid series I’d tell any WWII history fan to check out.