Awesome show, can't wait to get started on the second season.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
About to watch S1E1 which is free, I guess.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link
Gus?
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
Thanks for starting the thread Leee! I was very taken by this show. Article about the deepfakes they pull off in S2 here
Third season has already started filming and I'm very excited that it will cover the 90s and Mars!
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 23:46 (two years ago) link
Does anyone else think Gordo looks kinda like Ron Swanson with that mustache in S2?
― that's not my post, Thursday, 8 July 2021 01:38 (two years ago) link
heard Michael Dorman from Patriot is in it so automatic add to watch list
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 July 2021 01:43 (two years ago) link
Happy to see the thread. I'll try not to spoil until enough folks here have seen S1.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 8 July 2021 04:12 (two years ago) link
Love this show, the attention to detail is both brilliant and never overwhelms the story.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 8 July 2021 12:55 (two years ago) link
s2e1, lol at Margo's chili hair.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
I wholly attribute the single pop-culture alt-history bit that keeps popping up to Ron Moore’s boomerism (as some here have already heard me mention)
― mh, Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
Trying not to read the thread yet. Just watched "Red Moon." Great stuff, right in my wheelhouse. See you soon. Now entering LOS.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 July 2021 22:39 (two years ago) link
i just realized i have hardly watched any s2 :Owill start putting that right tonight
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 July 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link
Cape cookie sighting early on, S1E2!
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 July 2021 05:13 (two years ago) link
This is really good, says I after watching three episodes.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 July 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
Real James is correct in his description.
Season 2 Gordo is a thing of beauty (beauty = sadness)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 July 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
S1 = TOS cowboy/cowgirl lawlessnessS2 = TNG apex of bureaucratization (at least 2 episodes in)
As for Gordo: Damn this show for making me empathize with an ex-jock has-been!
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Saturday, 10 July 2021 00:52 (two years ago) link
oh when we were talking about fact v fictioni forgot add for anyone who is unfamilliar, Molly Cobb’s character is based on aviator/Mercury legend & badass Jerrie Cobb (who rules) - S1E4 is dedicated to her https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrie_Cobb
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 July 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link
The story about the big rocket at the very end of S1
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 10 July 2021 03:45 (two years ago) link
Another weird fact vs. fiction which is a small S2 spoiler: Ellen Wilson seemed likely to be based on Sally Ride (particularly keeping her sexuality private), but then Sally Ride also becomes a character on the show!
― Vinnie, Saturday, 10 July 2021 04:24 (two years ago) link
This is so good, says I 1/3 of the way through S1.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 July 2021 18:56 (two years ago) link
:D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 July 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
WVB stuff is incredibly well done imho
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 July 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
Probably didn't need to hide that, but who knows.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 July 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
James: agreed -- I thought it a very important thing to show people who are urbane and charming were capable of being complicit in atrocities, and also the human cost of scientific progress.
S2: early on when Tracy eyes Danny all grown up, it was REALLY uncomfortable because of the smaller age difference between the actors.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Sunday, 11 July 2021 22:39 (two years ago) link
Yes, at first I thought they were going to shy away from von Braun's past, but they really DID NOT
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 12 July 2021 08:13 (two years ago) link
If I may go there, while there are some obligatory retro quotation marks, all the personal emotional relationship stuff is deeply, um, relatable, those quotation marks are not at all of the moronic ironic scary variety, as someone like our old friend Momus may have described them.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
Feel like maybe that is TMI. We don’t talk about those things.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
Houston, how long until that TMI?
can you re-state it in a less oblique way? sorry to be dim but idgi
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
Sorry I was obfuscating. Just feel like the characters aren't just stranded in their fate in the alternate timeline past. There is some bit of self-awareness in them under the uptightness. Which seems to have been done pretty carefully, so they seem both of their time but more up to date as well. I imagine this becomes more apparent later, I am only in the episode after "Hi, Bob." Don't know if I have explained any better this time around, sorry.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 21:17 (two years ago) link
Maybe I just don’t watch enough tv these days and every show already does a good job of avoid this trap 🪤 I imagined while I was suffering from space isolation
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
Or, to paraphrase what I think JM said on this thread or maybe it was the other, I came for the tech fetish but stayed for the characters.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
Okay, maybe I didn't want to go there, but I am especially relating to some of the stuff about being married and being a parent, the way it is handled.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
the parenting / marriage stuff is so good, and it just gets more impressive/affecting/devastating as it goes i know Moore only had a hand in writing a few episodes but careerwise his strength as a show runner & writer has always been his ability find the humanity in characters over beating you over the head w tech/conceptthe writers are never so locked into the era/concept that they ever deny a character’s ability to respond like a human personit’s a really underrated quality
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 22:27 (two years ago) link
i bawled my damn eyes out over s2e3, let alone s1 — will need tear duct surgery soon if they keep it up
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 23:03 (two years ago) link
Roger, VG, you are go on that TMI.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 23:33 (two years ago) link
Showing the consequences on the characters' personal lives is a strong theme, and I think it's handled very well. Sci-fi as a genre doesn't have the best track record with it either
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 23:51 (two years ago) link
Watching this episode now:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clvrPmTx4n4
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
Also wanted to say it was driving me crazy wondering who that actor was until I saw in the credits it was James Urbaniak.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
So my ickiness at Tracy ogling Danny gets doubled down on in s2e7 when Danny kisses Karen.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 00:46 (two years ago) link
Just you wait
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 01:32 (two years ago) link
Just finished S1. Now to see what this S2 is all about.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 03:05 (two years ago) link
I get the impression that the creators of this show definitely watched Halt and Catch Fire. And it’s not just the parallel Gordons.
― mh, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
Hah ikr. Also, s2e8: THAT ENDING. OMFG talk about nightmare fuel.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
S2E1 was kind of big adjustment for me but now getting into it
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 23:16 (two years ago) link
yeah its weird getting used to seeing Ed wuth a few extra pounds & riding a desk
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
I get the impression that the creators of this show definitely watched Halt and Catch Fire.
Another show I completely adored
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 23:51 (two years ago) link
wow yeah the gordos are definitely of a piece
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
Love this show, I feel one of the connections with Halt & Catch Fire is (for me) unfortunate and that's being a bit bashed over the head with seemingly unconnected period music, HEY it's the SIXTIES! Sitars!!! Jumping Jack Flash!!
Although that one Petula Clark song they chose was rad.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 15 July 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
You couldn’t pay me to watch S3
― calstars, Sunday, 13 November 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
It's not *that* bad. I'd watch it again if someone paid me.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 November 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
Ha, yes, exactly.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 November 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
I wish the show had done another season set in the early ’70s before time jumping. Aside from being more fond of that era than the 80s, I liked the show best when its alternate history wasn’t so fantastic. Also, when had more relation to its advertising as a show about women astronauts. I don’t find the new cast as compelling as the original, so not looking forward to them taking over as the timeline gets further from the first season.
― blatherskite, Monday, 14 November 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
^OTM 100%
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
My wife referred to S3 E1 as The Towering Inferno.
Molly in S3 E2 : Pacino in Scent of a Woman.
The show is bad now, but in kind of a fun way.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
Oh yeah, Danny Baldwin has all of the gravitas of James Hurly in Twin Peaks.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 03:12 (one year ago) link
Thought pretty much the same thing about S3 E2. Keep ‘em coming!
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 03:15 (one year ago) link
lol good comparison. maybe Danny will give us some singing next season
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 04:42 (one year ago) link
OMG
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 06:56 (one year ago) link
Is next season when one of the Baldwins gets a cute little alien sidekick or is it TOO SOON?
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 06:58 (one year ago) link
My wife was dying at the scene of Danny glancing up at the statue of his parents outside NASA HQ, looking like a petulant teen who just got grounded.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 12:57 (one year ago) link
UGH, we just finished s1 and I want to dive into this thread but it starts at s2, whyyyyyyyy
Really good stuff. Between this and Patriot I'm pretty much onboard to watch literally anything Michael Dorman does. And even though I thought the show itself was pretty awful ('though the acting was mostly very good), I'm glad that we watched The Killing before this so that I can fully appreciate Joel Kinnaman's incredible range. Kinda love everyone here, though, even though I haven't encountered most of these actors previously
Took me waaaaay too long to realize that Deke was Frank Sobotka.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 15:55 (ten months ago) link
For All Mankind costume designer plays part in NASA’s next-generation space suit
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 17 March 2023 06:18 (eight months ago) link
Henry Fool is the film of the day on MUBI today, which reminded how long it took me to realize James Urbaniak was in this.
― Little Big Man Yells at Red Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 April 2023 02:09 (eight months ago) link
Just watching a show on Apple and a trailer for the new season popped up.
November 10th!
― groovypanda, Sunday, 22 October 2023 18:57 (one month ago) link
Will watch, I suppose.
― The Chronic Argo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 October 2023 19:15 (one month ago) link
Everyone seems consistently aged up by not aging them up at all except for Baldwin whom they've turned into David Harbour.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 22 October 2023 21:26 (one month ago) link
omg new season :D
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 October 2023 21:32 (one month ago) link
and S4 starts on the 10th
― that's not my post, Monday, 6 November 2023 14:54 (one month ago) link
Saw that
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 November 2023 14:57 (one month ago) link
Season premiere was fine. I hope they don't lean too hard into the soap, but I have a hunch that's what we're gonna get. Between this and "Battlestar Galactica," Ronald Moore has become the top name in not knowing what to do after the success of the first two seasons.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 November 2023 12:50 (four weeks ago) link
The 4 minute info dump was a little much
― MaresNest, Saturday, 11 November 2023 14:56 (four weeks ago) link
lol at (presumably) killing Danny between seasons
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 12 November 2023 01:14 (three weeks ago) link
feeling good about the H&CF Season 2 arc for Kelly and Aleida
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 19 November 2023 02:33 (two weeks ago) link
ed looks like villain-mode malkovich in his old age mskeup
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 November 2023 02:58 (two weeks ago) link
i like all the margo in russia stuff. the whole swan lake on the tv was a great touch i
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 November 2023 03:09 (two weeks ago) link
An H&CF story arc would be v cool.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 05:03 (two weeks ago) link
We’ve got Daniel Stern playing the head of NASA on FAM and Paul Reiner played head of the lab in Stranger Things. Guess the cast of Diner is ripe for the kindly but still kinda evil head bureaucrat roles.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 05:09 (two weeks ago) link
I want Margo to bump into Martha!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 05:58 (two weeks ago) link
lol, glad I'm not the only one who starts mixing this show up with The Americans every time we're zapped back to Russia.
― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 10:49 (two weeks ago) link
smorking that lound in space
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:01 (two weeks ago) link
Poor Margo.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:03 (two weeks ago) link
Bill/Aleida was special, the rest was fine
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 23 November 2023 01:19 (two weeks ago) link
Wayne shoutout though!
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 23 November 2023 01:34 (two weeks ago) link
they teased us with class warfare in space and a coup on earth, and we got more black market capitalism and a different type of coup succeeding
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 23 November 2023 01:55 (two weeks ago) link
this season is kind of a yawn like theres ok moments, the margo stuff is ok & yeah bill & aleida was coolbut also we are so far from Gordo now its like what are we even doing anymore
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 November 2023 06:27 (two weeks ago) link
I think the series owes more to Halt and Catch Fire more than any other recent tv show, but having the core cast evolve and age out/die definitely pushes the focal point more to the altered history and politicsThe hvac guy has an interesting plot arc but it’s underserved by having him be a pretty stock character so far. Seems like that whole thing might have been a setup to bring our NK friend back into the mix
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 23 November 2023 15:23 (two weeks ago) link
Some silliness with the Kelli & Aleida plot this week. And some seriousness with the Margo plot. Hopefully that’s sufficiently vague.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 25 November 2023 06:00 (two weeks ago) link
Solid episode, finally enjoying the Margo storyline. I'm guessing that something Miles saw on his excursion - the shiny rocks, the crevasse, something - will turn out to be a crucial plot point later on, otherwise what was it for.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 2 December 2023 12:54 (one week ago) link
Gonna be like magic life-housing space rocks that no one noticed before.
I don't really care about that dude, and when they gave the cosmonaut a sad farewell this ep I thought, you know, I didn't care about her, either. They're juggling a lot of different overlapping storylines this seasons.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 December 2023 17:03 (one week ago) link
Not clear if Ed has anything to do. Dani should send him home.
― that's not my post, Sunday, 3 December 2023 04:48 (six days ago) link
Miles is too goddamn stupid to live, Ed is a mess, honestly aside from Margo what are we even doing here ugh
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 05:14 (four days ago) link
Every time I think Miles is gonna be a new hero for the show he just fucks shit up. He... how did he even get hired. Come to that how on earth is that speakeasy going without being noticed by the higher ups, does everyone just keep shtumm because they all want to be able to get chocolate and undies and foot cream and porn?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 06:08 (four days ago) link
come for the porn, stay for the human trafficking
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 06:16 (four days ago) link
The actor does give off the aura of a porn star expecting to bang the horny prof but it turns out it's just a regular calculus final.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 15:15 (four days ago) link
VG OTM, we got rid of the Stevens yahoos that ruined S3 but so far only the Margo plot line is proving to be compelling
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 15:38 (four days ago) link
Show has found a groove, looking forward to Aleida in Russia. Didn't even hate the return of a Stevens yahoo.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 9 December 2023 00:09 (seven hours ago) link
opening scene was very Expanse (but with not-as-good CGI somehow?)
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 9 December 2023 01:00 (six hours ago) link
Better episode for sure
― that's not my post, Saturday, 9 December 2023 05:01 (two hours ago) link