Masters Of The Air Review: 4 Ups & 6 Downs

Again, this thing looks like a video game, and as the show's various battle sequences erupt this doesn't change, but under the visuals there's little denying the thrills and horror that comes with the action we see.

With battles depicted throughout Europe, the most compelling of which detail the fights over Schweinfurt and Regensburg, both in Germany, and Operation Overlord, Masters of the Air's aerial combat works horrible wonders to capture the claustrophobia and jolting uncertainty of the pilots' situations. 

It's in these moments where the show's various directors, including Cary Jo Fukunaga, Dee Rees and Tim Van Patten, particularly soar, each creating a visceral tapestry of destruction and impressive choreography that manages to feel both dreadful and entertaining in its unpredictability. 

Masters of the Air is at its best in the sky, where the emotion is at its most heightened and the tragedy at its most thick. It's so assured, in fact, that the flaws of the show are even more noticeable because of these moments, clearly crafted with more care than anything surrounding them.