“It was no BoB”, yeah we know. No shit lol. People bitch about the pacific too.

BoB is the undisputed goat, but let’s be real - it’s a romanticized view of WW2 that is hard not to love. It follows a singular company in a linear journey with clear scene and seasonal changes so it feels like this years long journey by the end too.

Compare that to The Pacific to which many in here openly claim is not up to snuff either. We have a story that shares the more raw image of warfare, some breaks in action, and follows multiple companies so it feels a bit more disjointed. The battle scenes look very similar to one another so I feel like there’s no real sense of time passing - like we spent several episodes that covered months rather than years that actually took place. But that was the reality of the pacific theatre by comparison. And the writing and story telling is just so fucking excellent.

Masters of the Air - a story that needed and deserved to be told. But a difficult one. Every action scene for these guys is ultimately the same. They take off, encounter flak, then fighters, drop their bombs, and if they’re lucky they come home. There’s no opportunity to show anything we haven’t really seen in episodes before other than a different plane going down or a different airman dying in the ship. So we rely on the personal stories out of battle to carry the series forward which ultimately makes it a much different story than the other two. Some of the cgi is admittedly bad, especially for a series made in the 2020s, but subjectively it’s a very good series and does a nice job of conveying the heaviness of getting in a plane mission after mission that’s increasingly suicidal and coming to terms with today is very likely your day.