‘Catch-22’ Review: Hulu’s Dark WWII Comedy Is Both Deeply Funny and Depressing

May 08, 2019

War is hell, sure, but in Hulu's Catch-22, it's more like a dream. Executive-produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov—each also star and direct two episodes apiece, with Ellen Kuras helming the other two—the six-episode adaptation faithfully maintains all the deeply surreal dark comedy of the Joseph Heller novel it's based on. The result is a sepia-filtered look at the cost of wars on the young lives that fight them that is somehow a profoundly funny and enormously depressing watch all at once, just as much a contradiction as its title …

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