Amph The Astronaut Wives Club

Anyone watching? I am curious to see what everyone thinks of this show so far.

 

While the concept is interesting, Mad Men.

Plus the trailer has a Terrible song, so it put me off.

 

Yeah. I want to like this, as I've been a spaceflight enthusiast since I was 12, but I feel like they're playing fast and lose with the source material, which they don't totally understand.

 

A way better show on the early space program is HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon" by Ron Howard/Tom Hanks.

 

I know it well. That was a lavish and exactingly accurate passion project from a pair of hardcore Apollo geeks. This is Cape Canaveral 90210.

 

It looks like Mad Men, only with astronauts.

 

Then you underestimate Mad Men.

 

That's not really the point. The point is that it moved way too fast, which suggests that the people who made this don't understand the material. The competition between Shepard, Grissom and Glenn to be first was utterly ferocious and when Shepard found out that he'd been beaten in space by Yuri Gagarin, he was really pissed. He was so angry that he brought his fist down on a dresser so hard that everyone else in the room thought that he broken his hand, and the reason why Shepard was picked over Glenn was because Glenn read the others the riot act over all the fooling around with girls and he was afraid of the program becoming embroiled in a sex scandal. They didn't mention that at all. Instead we got a throw away line about how the first flight was going to be flown by either Shepard, Glenn or Grissom who were all competing for the chance, then Shepard gets picked to fly first, then there's another throw away line about Gagarin, then Shepard flies. They tried to pack at least three episodes worth of story into an hour and the whole thing just felt disjointed and rushed.

 

I think the focus is supposed to be more on the women and you're all missing the point. The only way for that info you want to be in there is to focus on the men and that isn't the point of this show.


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I'm not disputing the point of the show and I will go so far as to say that I really like the concept of TAWC. A TV show set against the backdrop of the race to the moon and told from the perspective of the families as opposed to the point of view of the astronauts which has been done before and really well, in theory is a great idea. My point is that they tried to do too much too fast, and that makes me wonder how well do the writers and show runners actually understand the early history of the American space program. I will say in support of the show that the characterizations aren't bad and I am willing to allow that may I just have a more informed perspective that the average viewer, since I have a collection more than 50 books on the space program, but so far, I'm not all that impressed.

 

Woks is doing tremendous work.

 

it looked like that show Pan Am they did about 3 years ago. It was pretty lightweight, so i didn't bother watching this.