At long last, Daisy Ridley is giving herself grace.

It’s been a decade since she first landed the role of Rey in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, leaping from near-total obscurity to lead one of the biggest franchises in film history, and Ridley is, in some ways, still processing her impossible breakthrough.

“Honestly, the first time I watched myself on screen, I literally thought I ruined Star Wars,” Ridley, 31, tells Inverse.

She laughs now as she recounts the then-traumatic experience of watching The Force Awakens for the first time, shortly before it hit theaters. The actor, then 23, had never before seen herself in a leading role — she’d previously booked only small TV roles and was working in a bar when cast — and was overwhelmed, crying on the flight home to London.

Rarely is war as simple as a matter of good guys and bad guys. But if we’re lucky, there can still be heroes.

Enter: Masters of the Air, the third World War II drama series from Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and producer Gary Goetzman for Apple TV+.

In similar tradition to previous Spielberg/Hanks “Dad TV” productions Band of Brothers and The Pacific — both prolific contributors to the prestige HBO once commanded — Masters of the Air is a beautifully rendered and often thrilling vision of uncomplicated heroism. Despite clumsy plotting and some nauseating propagandistic navel-gazing, Masters of the Air resists stale cliches and instead turns in a genuinely uplifting portrait of American idealism, complete with the most impressive white-knuckle aerial combat ever crafted for the small screen.

Like fine whiskey, the show’s bursts of violence go down smooth, leaving one buzzing for more.