Masters Of The Air Review: 4 Ups & 6 Downs

Due to the fact it's overflowing with characters, from the 100th Bomb Group to the French Resistance and beyond, Masters of the Air spends an awful lot of time pivoting its drama from one group to another, struggling to settle as it works to cover as much ground as possible. 

This proves detrimental, because while some episodes shine when the focus is tightened - a solid late-series episode about the Tuskegee Airmen, for example - Masters of the Air ends up being so slapdash and unfocussed that it's hard to pay much attention to what's happening, let alone feel invested. 

Thanks in large part to often cliché-riddled dialogue and tactless setting changes, the drama's stories tend to be as thinly executed as the characters involved; the themes of patriotism and danger are bluntly thrown our way, but because story and character are so distant, there's no lasting impact, no way to settle in.

Lazily constructed and unwilling to dive below the surface of its drama, Masters of the Air wants us to listen to these men, but ends up giving them nothing to say.