Was it worse than National Geographic’s Elon Musk ass kissing “dramamentary” Mars?
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 9:28 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BfUHNrAV-h1emrvgnrybr6Y9yin3%3DAMngyeOqJY0360w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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/CAKgmY4B6ozZGmavGXYA3CD0n%2BEHq-RmO%3DKcEksSBW_rWrMCoWA%40mail.gmail.com.
