Part One
- Episode aired Jan 26, 2024
- TV-MA
- 1h 2m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
3.4K
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Led by Majors Cleven and Egan, the 100th Bomb Group arrives in England and joins the 8th Air Force's campaign against Nazi Germany.Led by Majors Cleven and Egan, the 100th Bomb Group arrives in England and joins the 8th Air Force's campaign against Nazi Germany.Led by Majors Cleven and Egan, the 100th Bomb Group arrives in England and joins the 8th Air Force's campaign against Nazi Germany.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the first episode the oft repeated claim is made that the Nordon bomb sight could drop a bomb in a pickle barrel and the belief that the could hit specific targets accurately was one of the factors that led to the US adopting a daylight bombing strategy. Sadly, in reality, the USAAF gained a reputation for unbelievable inaccuracy with its bombing. On 1st April 1944, 50 Liberators which had been dispatched to bomb Ludwigshafen, accidentally bombed Schaffhausen, in Switzerland, 146 miles away from the target causing 310 Swiss casualties. On 22 February 1945, thirteen USAAF air attacks took place on Switzerland with Stein am Rhein receiving the most damage. Other places included Taegerwilen, Rafz, and Vals. Overall, 21 people were killed in these attacks. Overall, Switzerland was attacked over 70 times during the war.
- GoofsAfter aborting a landing (a "go around") just above the runway due to wind shear, a B-17 climbs away at a ludicrously steep angle at low speed. In reality, that aircraft would have just stalled into the ground and killed everyone.
- Quotes
Maj. Gale 'Buck' Cleven: So, you want to tell me about this unicorn story?
Maj. John 'Bucky' Egan: The unicorn is my favorite extinct animal.
- ConnectionsReferences Test Pilot (1938)
Featured review
A rough takeoff
The first episode begins by battering you with cliches until you want to turn it off, and then is saved by some spectacular battle scenes, and then goes back to the nonsense. Every moment outside of a plane is very dry and feels contrived, none of the actors feel natural. I believe one actor has a thick Australian accent that they tried to cover with a New England accent and I was laughing because it turns out they are pretty close. I'm not particularly a fan of Berry Keoghan or Elvis, and selling the idea that they're some sort of rough and tumble pilots isn't working. There was one part where Pendleton said "Thank You" and I swear to god he did the Elvis voice. I think part of the charm of the original Band of Brothers was you got a bit of the characters training, this just jumped in with both feet and starts with deployment.
Overall it's a shaky start, but I'll stick with it for a bit. The most worrying scene to me was the "gears up" landing, which they tried to blow into this edge of your seat scene with loud suspenseful music. First of all, less is more, but more importantly if that's where the kind of thing they try to make exciting it tells me there isn't going to be much action. I hope I'm wrong.
Overall it's a shaky start, but I'll stick with it for a bit. The most worrying scene to me was the "gears up" landing, which they tried to blow into this edge of your seat scene with loud suspenseful music. First of all, less is more, but more importantly if that's where the kind of thing they try to make exciting it tells me there isn't going to be much action. I hope I'm wrong.
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- mesaxi
- Jan 28, 2024
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