Be sure to tune into Hulu to watch the television adaptation of the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22, which is executive-produced and co-stars George Clooney, along with Kyle Chandler, Hugh Laurie, and stars Christopher Abbott as Captain John Yossarian.

Watch Catch-22 on Hulu starting May 17th

In this series, Captain John Yossarian, a World War II bombardier, is stationed on the island of Pianosa. He is an individualist who seeks to protect his own life by fleeing to the hospital, since a “catch-22” in the Air Force regulations prevents him from being grounded for illness or obtaining a leave.

Incomparable artful dodger Yossarian, a U.S. Air Force bombardier in World War II, is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him; if he attempts to avoid his military assignments, he will be in violation of Catch-22.

More about Catch-22
Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II. Yossarian, a bombardier, whose frantic obsession every time he goes up on a mission is “to come down alive”. His odds of success at such a simple aim keep getting worse because Colonel Cathcart keeps raising the number of missions the men have to fly. More than the retreating Germans, the real enemy for Yossarian and his rag-tag bunch of friends is the bureaucracy of the military, inverting logic at every turn. The pinnacle of this is Catch-22, a military by-law which states that if you fly your missions, you’re crazy, and don’t have to fly them; all you have to do is ask. But if you ask not to, then you’re sane, and so you have to fly them.

Episode one and two premiere date: May 17, 2019
Ep 1: Young American flyers arrive in war and discover that the bureaucracy is more deadly than the enemy.
Ep 2: Yossarian pursues desperate measures to get home, while Milo sees war as a growth industry

Executive producer(s): George Clooney; Grant Heslov; Luke Davies; David Michôd; Richard Brown; Steve Golin; Ellen Kuras

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