World War II · Series · 2019–2019
Catch-22
A six-part retelling of Joseph Heller's novel follows bombardier Yossarian from training to an island air base, where every attempt to stop flying runs into the same absurd rule.
Where it happened
Follow the story across 4 places.
Stop 1: Pianosa, Tuscan Archipelago
Key location
Yossarian poisons the soup and moves the bomb line on the map to dodge a raid on Bologna, while the mission count keeps climbing.
Stop 2: Palermo, Sicily
Yossarian tags along on Milo's business trip to Sicily, where the mess officer has somehow been elected mayor.
Stop 3: Valletta, Malta
The trip continues to a fancy dinner in Malta held in Milo's honour.
Stop 4: Rome
On leave in Rome, Yossarian tries to deliver sad news to a girl's family and runs into the ugliest side of his own comrades.
What really happened
Heller drew on his 60 missions in 1944 as a B-25 bombardier with the 340th Bomb Group, which flew from Corsica against bridges, railways and ports in Italy and southern France. Medium bombers of the Twelfth Air Force spent 1944 cutting German supply lines in Italy, and crews watched the number of missions needed to go home rise more than once.
The series moves between the fictional base on Pianosa, the black-market empire Milo builds across the Mediterranean, and leave in Rome. The Bologna mission Yossarian dreads echoes the real Allied raids on the city's rail yards and bridges in 1944.
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Full details
- Original title
- Catch-22
- Created by
- Luke Davies, David Michôd
- Countries
- United States, Italy
- Languages
- English, Italian
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Released
- 2019–2019
- Period
- –
- Theaters of war
- Mediterranean & Africa
- Themes
- Air war
- Comedy
