TV Series2020 · 1 season · 8 episodes · Cancelled

The Right Stuff

Name: The Right Stuff
Genre: Drama
Cast: Jake McDorman, Patrick J. Adams, Colin O'Donoghue, Eloise Mumford, James Lafferty

Taste attributes: dramahistoricalespionagerobots/ai/spaceslowunsavouryheavyintricatelinearbig & variedall consuming questcomplex relationshiprescue/escape/jeopardyunderdog triumphs

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"The race to be first in space."

Boxlist takeExpect a weighty, smart drama series, big and varied rather than confined. Best if you like puzzles over plain sailing.

Taste details

Pace: slow · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: very heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: intricate · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

Quality rating

7.2 /10

TMDB · 92 votes

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Season

Project Mercury

· 2020 · 8 episodes

The first season starts at the height of the Cold War. To combat a national sentiment of fear and decline, the U.S. government conceives of NASA’s Project Mercury, igniting a space race with the Soviets and making instant celebrities of a handful of the military’s adrenaline-fueled test pilots.

Episodes (8)

1Sierra Hotel9 Oct 2020
It’s 1959 and Russia is winning the space race. In order to compete, The United States forms NASA and chooses to recruit the nations best test pilots to form what will become the Mercury Astronauts. Among these test pilots are the golden boy John Glenn, the reckless Alan Shepard, and Gordo Cooper, whose broken…
2Goodies9 Oct 2020
The press descends upon the domestic lives of the astronauts. Shepard and Gordo wilt under the limelight while Glenn thrives. Glenn secures a deal with Life Magazine that grants exclusive access to all seven astronauts in return for life-altering compensation. By the time the astronauts arrive in Florida to begin…
3Single Combat Warrior16 Oct 2020
After mysterious bouts of vertigo, Shepard turns to Dee O’Hara to help him. Meanwhile, Cocoa Beach has transformed from ghost town to perpetual party. Gordo finds himself tempted by another woman. Glenn seeks refuge from the bedlam at a local church gathering, where even he is confronted by temptation. The astronauts’…
4Advent23 Oct 2020
After a rocket malfunctions during a test, the Mercury 7 head home for Christmas. Shepard’s holidays are fraught, as the arrival of his parents coincides with the adoption of Louise’s niece. Gordo’s former mistress forces her way back into his life, jeopardizing his relationship with Trudy. And Glenn attempts to win…
5The Kona Kai Séance30 Oct 2020
Trudy meets with Jerrie Cobb and is invited to join the first all-female-astronaut corps. The Mercury 7 are sent to San Diego for some glad-handing, but the trip sours when Shepard is caught by a reporter with another woman. Glenn helps Shepard get the story spiked, but his moralizing drives a wedge between him and…
6Vostok6 Nov 2020
JFK sends a science committee to Cape Canaveral to assess the validity of the space program. Glenn, burning from the results of the peer vote, drafts letters to politicians complaining that Shepard is morally unfit to be the first man in space. But matters of internal power plays and a skeptical president are soon…
7Ziggurat13 Nov 2020
On the Eve of the flight, Louise learns of Shepard’s affair in Tijuana. Trudy watches Gordo crack a joke about women astronauts on television. Glenn awaits the humiliating moment when the world will finally learn he won’t be first. Tensions reach a breaking point when Shepard and Glenn are forced together in a…
8Flight20 Nov 2020
After Shepard’s dramatic voyage to space, he feels underwhelmed and restless. Heeding Glenn’s advice, Shepard attempts to quell his ambition with gratitude for his wife and children. While Shepard’s marriage somehow remains intact, Gordo and Trudy’s may never recover. Meanwhile, when JFK publicly issues a challenge…

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What lines up

Linearity: Linear / logical, just how this profile likes it
Wholesomeness: Unsavoury, just how this profile likes it
Pace: Slow, just how this profile likes it

What might not click

Setting / scale: Big / varied, where this profile leans small / confined
Emotional punch: Balanced emotional punch, where this profile leans emotive / stirring

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Synopsis

At the height of the Cold War, newly formed NASA selects seven of the military’s best test pilots to become astronauts. Competing to be the first in space, these men achieve the extraordinary, inspiring the world to turn towards a new horizon of ambition and hope.

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