Above and Beyond

This documentary series is a boring and very basic look at space travel and flight that feels like those really dull videos that you used to have to watch in school. Grainy stock footage is narrated over by an Australian with a thick, mumbling accent that is often drowned out by loud, mismatched music and/or voices from the original footage. It becomes sleep-inducing trying to focus on the mostly basic information sandwiched between endless repeating of names and just explaining what even a young child can grasp just watching the pictures. So much is repeated over and over that the 26 episode series could be reduced to about an hour of content if properly edited. You are better off with any of the stuff on the Science Channel or National Geographic.