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Away (2020)
Space Soap Opera with crying Astronauts - Junk
Can you imagine an astronaut two thirds the way to Mars crying and saying "I want to go home"? This family drama in spaceships and is a mess. I have no idea how the writers thought that two astronauts in a team of five would decide they wanted to replace their commander during a trip to Mars. I have no idea how the writers could reconcile a three-year trip for trained technical professionals turning into a sob fest as the astronauts text home regularly to know what their spouses had for lunch. This was an enormous waste of fine talent and great special-effects covering a momentous human achievement and reducing it "to" days of our lives". Blah! Need an antidote for this pablum? Slip in a DVD of "The Martian" and enjoy yourself.
The Twilight Zone: Little Boy Lost/Wish Bank/Nightcrawlers (1985)
Nightcrawlers Segment is about as good as TV gets
The one-show trilogy has one segment, "Nightcrawlers", directed by William Friedkin (Sorcerer, The Exorcist, The French Connection) that will blow your socks off. The unconventional format allows the director to spend just the right amount of time, without the need for the screenplay padding often pumped into the standard time slots (or even more destructively, the need to make a 43 minute slot to fill the network hour.) This tightly woven, breathlessly paced mini-drama is spooky and scary, all the more when the realization of what is happening dawns on the viewer. ** spoiler follows ** It concerns a haggard Vietnam veteran who has a strange affliction, and how he affects those who pass in his wake. It is an unrelenting look into the heart of man, and the price of violence as a way of life. Buckle your seat belt when it comes on, TV just does not get any better!