That strengthens my confidence in Netflix. On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 4:23 AM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi8oXZUJfhOwf7Li2AVBoG3aMMB6ZqNgDt426TaisLLyew%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAKGtkY%2BfUHNrAV-h1emrvgnrybr6Y9yin3%3DAMngyeOqJY0360w%40mail.gmail.com.
