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TV we watched
Aug. 23rd, 2024 08:24 pm
Masters of the Air. I grew up in England, watching films about the second world war, so I'm very familiar with what the RAF did and the Battle of Britain and all that. And I know that the RAF flew a lot of night missions, because they started out flying daylight missions and got the shit shot out of them.
I had no idea that when the US joined the war in 1942, they looked at what the RAF had learned from experience and said, 'Nah, we can do better than that.' So they flew daylight missions and got the shit shot out of them. And it's not like the RAF weren't suffering, they still had a high attrition rate flying at night, but I definitely learned something from this series.
It was well made, with a solid cast, and it covered a lot of ground, including touching on the racism and the fact that there were entirely separate units of Black pilots with inferior planes. It was interesting that they did the historical take on the Great Escape, it being an entirely British thing, with no American involvement at all. Well worth watching the final ep end credits, with all the info on what happened to the RL people after that war. Good stuff. (Yes, it's Apple TV, use your alternatives accordingly. We did.)
Fargo season 5. Damn, this was good. The usual Coen Brothers Fargo style, with a very black humour and a lot of social commentary beneath it, but this was one of the better Fargo series, for sure. It opens AWESOMELY, and builds hard and fast. Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh get to chew the scenery as the Worst of America stereotypes. Steve Harrington from Stranger Things gets to play a total arsehole, while also being a victim. The Cat King from DBDA gets to play an absolute scumbag loser 🤣
I'd never seen Juno Temple before (I understand you know her if you've seen Ted Lasso), but she's fantastic. She holds the whole series together and she's brilliant and vulnerable and smart and scared; she's everything. And apparently she's another person with a lot of accent skills doing a good fake Minnesota XD
I had no idea that when the US joined the war in 1942, they looked at what the RAF had learned from experience and said, 'Nah, we can do better than that.' So they flew daylight missions and got the shit shot out of them. And it's not like the RAF weren't suffering, they still had a high attrition rate flying at night, but I definitely learned something from this series.
It was well made, with a solid cast, and it covered a lot of ground, including touching on the racism and the fact that there were entirely separate units of Black pilots with inferior planes. It was interesting that they did the historical take on the Great Escape, it being an entirely British thing, with no American involvement at all. Well worth watching the final ep end credits, with all the info on what happened to the RL people after that war. Good stuff. (Yes, it's Apple TV, use your alternatives accordingly. We did.)
Fargo season 5. Damn, this was good. The usual Coen Brothers Fargo style, with a very black humour and a lot of social commentary beneath it, but this was one of the better Fargo series, for sure. It opens AWESOMELY, and builds hard and fast. Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh get to chew the scenery as the Worst of America stereotypes. Steve Harrington from Stranger Things gets to play a total arsehole, while also being a victim. The Cat King from DBDA gets to play an absolute scumbag loser 🤣
I'd never seen Juno Temple before (I understand you know her if you've seen Ted Lasso), but she's fantastic. She holds the whole series together and she's brilliant and vulnerable and smart and scared; she's everything. And apparently she's another person with a lot of accent skills doing a good fake Minnesota XD
