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.