(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Hulu’s “Catch-22” through the six-episode limited series’ finale.)Fans of Joseph Heller’s classic World War II novel “Catch-22” know that John Yossarian ...
Nuance, detail, feeling — these and other tough-to-capture elements tend to get lost in translating a book’s story to the screen. When the literary work is a chronological jumble designed as a satire, ...
It’s a good thing that Christopher Abbott was cast to play John Yossarian, the existentialist, bombardier protagonist of Joseph Heller’s classic World War II novel “Catch-22,” in Hulu’s adaptation of ...
This is FRESH AIR. I'm TV critic David Bianculli. On Friday, Hulu presents a new six-part miniseries adaptation of Joseph Heller's classic 1961 anti-war novel "Catch-22." George Clooney is one of its ...
How do you adapt Joseph Heller’s acclaimed, sprawling 1961 novel satirizing the bureaucracy of World War II, while improving upon Mike Nichols’ 1970 movie? Well, if you’re Hulu, you get George Clooney ...
Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22 is one of the greatest anti-war satires ever written. With their six-part Hulu miniseries adaptation, George Clooney and Grant Heslov have nailed the anti-war part.
The upcoming dark-comedy Catch-22 boasts an impressive all-star cast, and is set to arrive on Channel 4 very soon. The series is based on the Joseph Heller novel of the same name, and follows the ...
Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 captures the madness of systems that trap us in logic loops we can’t escape. More than a war novel, it’s a timeless satire of ambition, bureaucracy, and absurd order. Every ...
It couldn't be more fitting that the latest adaptation of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 finds its home on Hulu, proud purveyors of dystopia. The six-episode miniseries has been marketed mostly as a comedy, ...
At a time when leveling even the slightest criticism at the U.S. military runs the risk of seeming unpatriotic, the fact that Hulu is streaming an adaptation of “Catch-22” qualifies as a bold creative ...
In Joseph Heller’s novel, Catch-22, Capt. John Yossarian, a World War II airman stationed near Rome, gets frustrated over the practice of the military police who cite a rule called Catch-22 whenever ...
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