TV series reviews: Masters of the Air & Manhunt
If I've said it once, I will say it again, whenever a screenwriter delves into the dusty pages of history, one has to take special care in the telling of it. Not only doing justice to the real people involved and not just honouring their deeds and heroism but also a fair portrayal of those on the other side of the coin. For the first of those two, American pilots in World War II in Masters of the Air, I honestly wasn't expecting to be drawn in so intently and be so invested in the survival of the main characters (all based on real people), production values - especially the score by Blake Neely, is set firmly at eleven. I suppose I was just used to the typical war films all big heroics and sending in the cavalry at the last minute to save the day. This production is five stars all the way. The ugliness of war is there for all to see, they do not go light on any of the details - which means both sides show the horrors of what everyone did to stay alive and the overall series i