We first meet Commander Emma Green (Swank), with her medically-disqualified astronaut husband Matt Logan (Josh Charles) and daughter Alexis (Talitha Elania Bateman) as she is nervously preparing to take center stage in an international press event the night before she and her crew leave for moonbase Alpha (yes, fellow Space: 1999 fans I think that was an honest-to-goodness homage), where her rocket ride to Mars awaits… Astronauts Lu, Misha, Emma, Ram and Kwesi make up the “Away” Team. Hilary Swank, Josh Charles and Talitha Elania Bateman are all going “Away”…
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“Away” is much more about Earthly domestic drama, which is well-acted for the most part, but as the old song says “the thrill is gone.” If anything, going to Mars is portrayed in this series as a lot more trouble than it’s worth. There is little romance for the Red Planet, nor appreciation for the mythical power its long held over humanity. Mars is incidental–a massive technical pain in the ass to be overcome.
The series, created by Andrew Hinderaker, could’ve just as easily been about a group of soldiers doing an extended tour in Afghanistan or Iraq. However, “Away” is all about the angst of separation ( hence the title). That was the hook that first got my attention, anyway. The 10-episode first season of “Away” is, superficially, about a crew of astronauts preparing to land on Mars. ****PHOBOS & DEIMOS-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!**** Now, Netflix has got a case of Mars fever with a new series starring Oscar winner Hilary (“Boys Don’t Cry”) Swank as Commander Emma Green, the leader of an intentional expedition to Mars. Clearly a second season was planned, but fortunately, it never happened. The show was a complete downer, and it (mercifully) ended just as the crew headed off for Mars at the end of the season. The series saw Penn dealing with a rebellious daughter and his own survivor’s guilt (after an explosion kills the first Mars crew), as he prepares to take off for Mars with a group of sad-sack astronauts. More recently there was a ten episode Hulu series called “The First” (2018) which starred Sean Penn as the most melancholy astronaut ever.
It made going to Mars seem as thrilling as a proctological exam. Seriously, no one ever smiles on this show…ever.
Hulu’s “The First” (2018) starring Sean Penn. It too, dealt with the isolation from Earth as well as the challenges of life in a hostile environment. Going back much earlier, there was the far less scientifically accurate, though no less enjoyable 1964 flick, “Robinson Crusoe On Mars”, which was one of the movies that first sparked my own interest in the Red Planet. Ridley Scott’s 2015 film is one of the most faithful book-to-film adaptations I’ve ever seen, faithfully capturing Weir’s story, as experienced through his smart-ass avatar, astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon). For me, the gold standard of fictional Mars missions in this past decade has been Andy Weir’s 2011 book “The Martian”, which managed (with only a few fictional fudges) to convey many of the challenges, engineering and otherwise, that would be involved in living on Mars for any length of time. MADDEN.Bit of quick preamble anyone who’s read this site for awhile probably knows that I am an irredeemable Mars-geek, and a sizable chunk of my book and DVD library relates to Mars, either through real-life probe findings or fictional Mars exploits. This song made me emerald splash Comment by Rynnexįear the power of Comment by Bean MannĪeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeioaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouuaeiou AEIOU JOHN MADDEN DAZE Comment by Marcus Mamma Mia pappa pia baby got the diarrhEEAAAAAA Comment by ＣＯＯＬ ＫＡＫ 🍒 Genre Text-to-Speech Comment by P O T plant All vocals coded within Moonbase Alpha and recorded on Audacity. and it's an English-based text-to-speech engine from Moonbase Alpha. The opening theme from the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders anime has a new vocalist.
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