A WWII epic made perfectly as a streaming series.

“Masters of the Air” is a made-for-AppleTV+ series that’s something made perfectly for WWII fans. It focuses on the 100th Bomb Group during the war, like how the American Army Air Force and the British Royal Air Force had different approaches to bombing Germany. The Americans would bomb in the day, while the Brits would bomb at night. And how there are those who haven’t left America or flown in planes, but are willing to take down Hitler’s Third Reich.

So far, two episodes were given to us viewers, and already it’s a masterpiece with its heroic and dangerous views on the war. How some people can’t handle the skies, how some have gotten killed, and what is means through the perspectives of these boys.

Among the characters on this epic series, Major Gale “Buck” Cleven (Austin Butler) and Major John “Bucky” Egan (Callum Turner) are good friends and the leaders of a unit group, and Lt. Henry Crosby (Anthony Boyle) would be the show’s narrator and the navigator, who suffers from airsickness. He just needs a nickname besides Bing. You know like Bing Crosby. Besides he can’t sing.

Anyway…….

Pay attention to the nickname differences between Buck and Bucky. As the story begins, Buck needs to know what it’s like in the air during combat, and learns about the horrors of it. “We got a long road ahead of us,” he says. And Bucky gets demoted to CO of the 418th squadron. They’re both real life characters, but this is as far as the first two episodes can bring us. It really about the direction and narrative that has us entertained.

The show was produced by “Band of Brothers” collaborators Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman. It was also co-created by the same writer of that show-John Orloff, along with “X-Files” writer John Shiban. And the first few episodes are directed by Cari Joji Fukunaga, whose last film was “No Time to Die,” and who is currently an executive producer on “True Detective.” All these creative geniuses know how to develop a WWII story to keep people glued to her computers or TV screens (depending on what they watch it on), and have actors (American or United Kingdom based) who ease into their characters and their emotions.

So, while we’re watching and emotionally tested by the movie “Oppenheimer” in terms of the Atomic Bomb, we’re watching and emotionally tested by the show “Masters of the Air” and our boys up in the air during battle. Even an indoor bike race scene looks exhilarating.

I can’t wait to see what the rest of this series brings to us.

Streaming Weekly on AppleTV+