Part Six
- Episode aired Feb 23, 2024
- TV-MA
- 1h 1m
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8.1/10
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Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.
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Did you know
- TriviaWhile not accurate for John Egan's actual evasion and capture in Germany, the experiences shown by his character in this episode were very strongly based on the actual incident named the Russelsheim Massacre, where six American airmen were executed by an angry mob of German civilians, while their two armed guards stood by idle. One uniformed air warden, armed with a semi-automatic pistol, emptied his magazine while shooting all six in the head to ensure they were dead. The incident started when two German women called the airmen, "terror flyers," and one threw a brick to the head of an airman.
Finally, again as portrayed, those airmen who failed to escape were taken by a cart to a nearby cemetery and buried in a mass grave. One event that happened in reality, but not portrayed in the scene was that an air raid siren sounded off at the height of the violence, causing the mob to stop and flee in fear. This allowed two of the six airmen to escape. Their reports were integral to the post-war investigation.
The American prosecutor was Lt. Col. Leon Jaworski, who was the special prosecutor in the Watergate hearing. He insisted on individual accountability for war crimes and secured eight convictions with one acquittal. Six German civilians and the air warden were sentenced to death. The two others were sentenced to 15 and 25 years in prison. One of the death sentences was later commuted to 30 years of hard labor, and the other five were hanged.
- GoofsStalag Luft III is portrayed as a massive camp, with several hundred barracks and similar in size to a concentration camp, and the caption marks the date as October 1943. In reality, Stalag Luft III had just opened in March 1943, so by October it was not that big. Its appearance is more consistent to the camp in the height of its operations, in November 1944.
- Quotes
Sandra Westgate: [On surprising a near naked Crosby] Oh, don't worry. I've seen men in much less, Captain. Big family. Small house. Few doors.
- ConnectionsReferences Test Pilot (1938)
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Episode 106, is the show good now?
I've put off watching this episode all weekend long because, honestly, I just didn't want to watch something that could potentially disappoint and annoy me.
But I am feeling so many things from this episode, I am just so torn because at times there is some really good writing and some beautiful character moments. Then, in others, it kinda reverts to the dullness I have come to expect.
This just makes me so happy and frustrated. Frustrated because where was this quality earlier in the season? Why did we take so long to reach this quality?
What surprised me the most about this episode is the writing. The writing in this show has been dull. The characters in this show have been dull. Then now all of a sudden, I'm taking an interest in these characters? Am I actually starting to care for these characters? I don't know who wrote this episode, but I refuse to believe it's been the same writers. If it is, then well, I guess even a broken clock is right twice.
This whole episode is practically void of action, and it leaves it up to these characters and their dialogue to carry things, and I'm surprised to admit it was good. Maybe it's my low expectations, but I actually really enjoyed this episode. They finally wrote these characters as people just doing their best to live and survive in this horrible war.
Now, this episode is far from perfect and not without critique. In this episode we do delve into the prisoner of war side of things and while it is interesting and I am intrigued to see where they take this I feel I've seen this type of content done better. But it seems they are just getting started with this plotline, so hopefully, this will pick up as it seems it will in next weeks episode.
Anyway, while this and last week's episode has left me surprised in the quality of its content, I will remain skeptical, but hopefully, maybe this show will continue to get better.
IMDb: 8/10 Letterboxd: 4/5
Watched on Apple TV+ in 4k Dolby Vision.
But I am feeling so many things from this episode, I am just so torn because at times there is some really good writing and some beautiful character moments. Then, in others, it kinda reverts to the dullness I have come to expect.
This just makes me so happy and frustrated. Frustrated because where was this quality earlier in the season? Why did we take so long to reach this quality?
What surprised me the most about this episode is the writing. The writing in this show has been dull. The characters in this show have been dull. Then now all of a sudden, I'm taking an interest in these characters? Am I actually starting to care for these characters? I don't know who wrote this episode, but I refuse to believe it's been the same writers. If it is, then well, I guess even a broken clock is right twice.
This whole episode is practically void of action, and it leaves it up to these characters and their dialogue to carry things, and I'm surprised to admit it was good. Maybe it's my low expectations, but I actually really enjoyed this episode. They finally wrote these characters as people just doing their best to live and survive in this horrible war.
Now, this episode is far from perfect and not without critique. In this episode we do delve into the prisoner of war side of things and while it is interesting and I am intrigued to see where they take this I feel I've seen this type of content done better. But it seems they are just getting started with this plotline, so hopefully, this will pick up as it seems it will in next weeks episode.
Anyway, while this and last week's episode has left me surprised in the quality of its content, I will remain skeptical, but hopefully, maybe this show will continue to get better.
IMDb: 8/10 Letterboxd: 4/5
Watched on Apple TV+ in 4k Dolby Vision.
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- Feb 24, 2024
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