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In the spirit of your comment: Because. It’s actually very good.

• ShamelessC 4y ago
  The show’s premise is a nuanced, optimistic take on what humanity might have achieved had we continued the space race. It focuses on historical plausibility, a bit like The West Wing. The main characters “pay the price” for this early progress in the way you imagine a hero astronaut/cosmonaut might - with their lives and/or livelihoods. I watched it with my dad however and he wouldn’t shut up about “wokeness” (we disagree on a few things). The show is effectively an imagining of “America, made great in the first place”, and at least the core premise - that we lost our hunger for exploration after winning the space race, _used to be_ a bipartisan talking point. Absolutely recommend it. Also, the imagined space shuttles they get to come up with are amazing.
  • dmitriid 4y ago
    > I watched it with my dad however and he wouldn’t shut up about “wokeness” I thought it was leaning a bit too heavily on what we consider modern issues. But then it turns out that some of the characters in the story where real and lived through this or something close to this (I forget now, but one of the women astronauts that never got to fly was a real person)
  • kybernetyk 4y ago
    The premise is intriguing. I was really looking towards the show. Until I watched the first episode. Sadly the show turned out to be boring.