This show is so full of crap... - The Astronaut Wives Club (2015) Discussion

[–] LindaY 9 years ago

Why does every show about the 1960s have to be "going after" Mad Men? A lot of other things happened in the 1960s besides MM; if they made a show about Vietnam soldiers' wives would that be "taking up Mad Men's slack"?

I've never watched Mad Men and refuse to watch anything by the former "American Movie Classics."

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[–] gigantegenovese 9 years ago

ABC references Mad Men when they promoted this crapfest!

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[–] warlok1 9 years ago

"... if they made a show about Vietnam soldiers' wives ..."

HEY! That's a good idea! Should bang off a pilot script...be about the women on base stateside being the 'homefront' as Vietnam heats up.

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[–] Supervix77 9 years ago

I agree. It's very disappointing and could be so much better. The acting isn't great and it just feels like there are holes in the plot. They need to better develop characters too.

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[–] katesgram2000 9 years ago

I was very young when all of this early space travel was taking place so I am enjoying it a lot. I also enjoy the look of the show.

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[–] Am_I_the_one 9 years ago

I like this show! I wasn't born yet when some of this happened and now I have decided to read the book. I could actually watch this show if they decided to give it a second season.

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[–] wab-3 9 years ago

The book and the history of the period it covers has enough material for 2-3 more seasons at least, assuming they stick with just the Mercury program for the first season. A lot more astronaut wives came along with Gemini and Apollo. Also, there's never been a really authentic film or miniseries done on the Gemini program, so even if told just through the eyes of the wives a couple of seasons focusing on the Gemini flights would be really cool. Lots of real characters show up among the Gemini astronauts and their wives.

If you like this series, you should really go back and watch From the Earth to the Moon. It's a pretty cool overview of the Apollo program, plus there's one episode just about the wives.

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[–] kingg-2 9 years ago

Gemini has been massively overlooked by history. There is a ton of stuff on Mercury, a ton and a half on Apollo. Practically nothing on Gemini beyond the original news material from the mid-60s.

I was born in 1970, so a bit late to remember anything about Apollo first hand. The first Space Shuttle launch, I remember that very well as my entire 5th-grade class watched it together. However, one of the first books I read was about Apollo 11, which was still recent history in the 76-77 timeframe when I read it. I had the space bug hard, and read everything I could get my hands on. For kids in elementary school, just 10 years or so after the missions, there just wasn't much about Gemini. Glenn was still a national hero, Gordo was the bad boy of NASA, Sheppard was the old guy to managed to make it to the moon. Grissom died in the fire. Then it was all about Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, and a bit about Apollo 13. That was it kids books. I did dig up some stuff about Gemini at one of my cousins, who was about to go to college and had some games and some books from when he was my age, back around 1965.

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[–] Am_I_the_one 9 years ago

wab-3 Thanks for the info! I will look to see if Amazon has the dvd of Earth to the Moon.

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[–] kingg-2 9 years ago

The episode about the wives - "The Original Wives' Club" - is about the New Nine wives. So far, no real overlap at all, although there could be some if the focus shifts to the wives of later groups of astronauts after the Mercury guys start to fade away. If the next episode is about the Kennedy assassination, that brings it right up to the point when Glenn left NASA.

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