Spoilers forMasters of the Airepisode 9 follow.
This opening scene is the show at its best.
at soldiers approaching with their guns drawn to prove he’s American.
Luckily they believe him, and he ends up on the long road back to England.
Along the way, though, he stumbles across the truly harrowing scene of an abandoned concentration camp.
It’s difficult to watch his realization of the depth of the atrocities committed there.
We’ve come full circle with Rosenthal, from newbie to established stalwart, and it’s very satisfying.
Liberation and reunion
The show’s main figures, though, remain Egan and Cleven.
The finale makes it clear that their bond is and always has been the heart of the show.
When the prisoner of war camp is evacuated, conditions are harsh and near-lethal on the trek through Germany.
Egan, though, is caught and almost shot.
That’s partly to be expected, of course, considering the quality of Band of Brothers.
It could’ve been a much stronger show without the muddled pacing.
Instead, we had our handful of main characters to follow, and that was that.
All episodes of Masters of the Air are now streaming on Apple TV Plus.
