Catch-22 (miniseries)

Catch-22 is a satirical dark comedy miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Heller. It premiered on May 17, 2019, on Hulu in the United States.

The series stars Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, Hugh Laurie, and George Clooney, who is also an executive producer alongside Grant Heslov, Luke Davies, David Michôd, Richard Brown, Steve Golin, and Ellen Kuras. The series was written by Davies and Michôd and directed by Clooney, Heslov, and Kuras, with each directing two episodes.

Summary
John Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) is a United States Army Air Forces bombardier in World War II, furious that thousands of people are trying to kill him and that his own army keeps increasing the number of missions he must fly. He is trapped by the bureaucratic rule Catch-22, which considers a willingness to fly dangerous combat missions to be insane, yet a request to be relieved of duty on the grounds of insanity to be the process of a rational mind, so any such request must be denied.

He chose bombardier hoping the war would finish before his lengthy training but now sits exposed in the nose of a B-25 dropping bombs on strangers who are trying to kill him, unless he is avoiding flying by feigning illness, sabotaging his intercom, self-inflicted illness, or clandestinely moving the bomb line so it appears their target has already been captured.

The events occur in the Mediterranean theatre of World War II while the fictional 256th US Army Air Squadron is based on the (fictionalized) island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, and conducting bombing raids over heavily defended fascist controlled Italy. Events are largely on base and in the air; there are later events in Italy and early scenes of basic training in the US.

Cast

 * Christopher Abbott as Capt. John Yossarian
 * Kyle Chandler as Colonel Cathcart
 * Daniel David Stewart as Milo Minderbinder
 * Rafi Gavron as Aarfy Aardvark
 * Graham Patrick Martin as Ivor Orr
 * Lewis Pullman as Major Major Major Major
 * Austin Stowell as Nately
 * Pico Alexander as Clevinger
 * Jon Rudnitsky as McWatt
 * Gerran Howell as Kid Sampson
 * Hugh Laurie as Major — de Coverley
 * Giancarlo Giannini as Marcello
 * George Clooney as Lieutenant (later Colonel and eventually General) Scheisskopf
 * Grant Heslov as Doc Daneeka
 * Kevin J. O'Connor as Lt. Colonel Korn
 * Julie Ann Emery as Marion Scheisskopf
 * Tessa Ferrer as Nurse Duckett
 * Jay Paulson as The Chaplain
 * Harrison Osterfield as Snowden