Not worse, but I expected better. On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 9:42 AM Kevin M. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Was it worse than National Geographic’s Elon Musk ass kissing > “dramamentary” Mars? > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 9:28 AM PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> That strengthens my confidence in Netflix. >> >> On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 4:23 AM Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> And Netflix has already said there will not be a second season of "Away." >>> >>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 12:24 PM PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I’m not saying “Away”, the Netflix series about the first manned >>>> mission to Mars, is the worst thing on the platform. I am saying it is the >>>> worst thing on the platform I have ever watched all the way through. >>>> >>>> I am a sucker for stories about space travel in general, and Mars in >>>> particular. I also hate spoilers, so I studiously avoided any review or >>>> comment on Away until I had the time to binge it, which I did last night >>>> and this morning. It is aggressively, offensively, almost intentionally >>>> bad. It is the Donald Trump of Mars space program shows. I kept with at >>>> first not believing it would not get better, and then when it was clear it >>>> had no aspiration to being better, plowed through as punishment for all my >>>> past sins. >>>> >>>> Most average to good television shows are spoiled by stereotypical, one >>>> dimensional melodramatic depictions of adolescents. Away does treat it’s >>>> adolescent character in this manner, but is spoiled by depicting its five >>>> international astronauts in the same way. >>>> >>>> What I am interested in is, how does a show like this get to be so bad? >>>> It has several big named actors, but feels like both story and dialogue >>>> were written by someone asking: “How would a poor man’s Shondra Rhimes >>>> write this?” I get that they were not really interested in the actual >>>> science or engineering involved in traveling to Mars, and wanted to focus >>>> on the human elements, but did they have to take such a stinky dump on the >>>> technical elements, while giving them the middle finger? >>>> >>>> I did not like this program. >>>> >>>> On the others hand, a month ago I stumbled upon a show called The >>>> Queen’s Gambit on Netflix before it started trending and without knowing >>>> anything about it. So good. 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