Hulu S Catch 22 Review
The bar for success with regard to Hulu’s Catch-22 miniseries is almost absurdly high, given not only that Mike Nichols made a feature film of it in the ‘70s and, most importantly, that any adaptation of Joseph Heller’s famed anti-war novel is going to have to stand up against the seminal source material itself. Credit, then, to executive producers and directors George Clooney and Grant Heslov (who also appear in the series as lieutenant Schiesskopf and Doc Daneeka, respectively), as well as writers Luke Davies (Beautiful Boy) and David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) for not only using the six-hours at their disposal to cover more of Heller’s novel, but also for the nimble way in which it handles the challenging tonal variances therein, deftly moving between dark comedy, absurdly hawkish jingoism, and utter despair....