Away

5/10...drama not sci-fi depending on how you look at it. Great cast..but we live In a world where we understand real science. The Martian vs this makes it a 3/10. BUT...acting and photograph is great. Writting is very weak and not high school...Jr high.

In addition to the series, the soundtrack was great, it attracted more of my soundtrack to the series than the series itself ...

As other reviews have complained, this is not The Expanse. It's far closer to First Man (which I thought was excellent). Away is a story about people and relationships, just set in space. Where most of sci fi is really shallow on character and script, and heavy on aliens and action, Away is the opposite, and I find it so refreshing. This is how actual humans behave and speak to each other, and I really wish this attention to character and story development was put into every movie and show. Hilary Swank does an amazing job of being both a strong, believable commander, and a mother and wife. I can't think of anywhere else I've seen this done so well, and it's a shame this doesn't seem to be what people want in their television. I guess I agree generally that some character tropes are present, but they are all written so well it just doesn't matter. I absolutely BELIEVE them, and I'm invested in their stories. I haven't rolled my eyes once during season 1 so far, which I cannot say for literally any other sci fi show I've ever seen (and I've seen A LOT). If you tend to cringe a lot while watching sci fi due to cheesy dialog and characters, I'd highly recommend giving Away a shot.

This series had potential to be something great. Unfortunately, it's very slow paced, boring, unrealistic and full of clichés.

What a let down. The trailer seemed exiting so I gave 7 hours of my life away for that show and couldn't be more disappointed. The cast is not so much the issue. I really just believe that whoever directed this or wrote the plot should spend some time hanging out at NASA or with PhDs in science to realize that no character in this show delivers the behavior of what you would expect from an elite international group of five highly trained, educated individuals. I myself am of such a background, so are all my colleagues, and this shows ridiculizes the scientific community / NASA research sphere. Right of the start of the show an indecent happens and all five members give conflicting accounts of the 2 minutes event. Spend some time with intellectuals of that level to know that this would not happen, they would all be sharply on point. Then there is the amount of nonsense lines all over the place that just made me stop the show. For me, it was when the world leading botanist suggested that the reason one plant survived was a miracle from God did the trick.

In a few words, this a basically nothing but a soap opera, with a slight twist of background - if what you are after is realistic space movie, go back to Apollo 13.