With the most anticipated movies of 2020 facing long release delays, buzzy TV shows feel even more exciting now than they usually do. And HBO's upcoming series Lovecraft Country looks like it could be one of the biggest shows of the year. The series is executive produced by Get Out and Us filmmaker Jordan Peele and Lost creator J.J. Abrams, which is enough to get horror and sci-fi fans hyped, and is based on a book that draws upon the works (and deeply racist views) of one of the most celebrated horror writers in history, H.
Diana, the waitress who Don Draper successfully stalked into romantic submission on this week's Mad Men, seems less like a person and more like a figment clothed in various waitress uniforms. If you watched last night's episode, "New Business," and grew increasingly convinced that Diana was actually an imaginary sex-friend Don conjured to provide comfort as his second marriage came to an ugly end, you probably were not alone. Because of the out-of-left-fieldness of their relationship and the rushed nature of their story arc, something about this woman's entire Mad Men existence so far feels a little surreal and untethered from reality.
In the first three episodes of Apple TV+'s Masters of the Air, the American pilots witnessed the horrors of war firsthand. Many young, hotshot bombardiers joined the war effort with rose-tinted glasses—propelled by a sense of duty and American pride. But it wasn't until Major Gale "Buck" Cleven (Austin Butler) and Major John "Bucky" Egan (Callum Turner)'s first mission to Bremen, Germany that our heroes saw just how harrowing World War II's battlegrounds had become.
Masters of the Air's heroes have been grounded this week. Major Gale Cleven (Austin Butler) is missing in action, John Egan (Callum Turner) is trapped in a prisoner of war (POW) camp, and Harry Crosby is off to Oxford University for an Allied nations meeting. Even our new favorite Masters of the Air pilot—Robert "Rosie" Rosenthal (Nate Mann)—is on a forced vacation, since he was the only pilot to return from the crew's latest mission.
When we last left our Masters of the Air heroes–John "Bucky" Egan (Callum Turner) and Gale "Buck" Cleven (Austin Butler)–they were reunited at a prisoner of war camp deep in the heart of enemy territory. Egan entered the camp at Stalag Luft III thinking his buddy perished a week earlier, only to find that he was alive and well. "What the hell took you so long?" he asked. Finally, the real-life Masters of the Air bromance between the two Buckys continues in episode 7.