how are you liking Away? i watched the trailer and thought that it looked like a sappy melodrama aimed at suburban moms like a jodi picoult novel

Oh, lol, hmm, I didn’t watch the trailer so I came in mostly just knowing it was an astronaut show and immediately associating it with For All Mankind, which is definitely a character drama but also filled with a surprising amount of science and astronaut action. 

This show is less that than I’d expected, especially after a pretty tense sequence in space in ep 2, that seemed to have been the exception from a more schmaltzy family and character based drama, which I don’t always love, but it’s what gave us ep 3, so I can’t complain. I do like things like how each of the astronauts represents an existing or rising space nation, their different roles, the friction between them, and I love both the female astronauts a lot.