And Netflix has already said there will not be a second season of "Away."
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 12:24 PM PGage <[email protected]> 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. So I will call it even with Netflix for now. > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLiXQuykdeWfVP2eX5prpD4%2B6yVHVer802YC%3Ddbvods_Q%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLiXQuykdeWfVP2eX5prpD4%2B6yVHVer802YC%3Ddbvods_Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi8oXZUJfhOwf7Li2AVBoG3aMMB6ZqNgDt426TaisLLyew%40mail.gmail.com.
