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If you like space. If you like visually striking scenes. If you like tension. If you like action. If you like that 60s era and onwards. And if you are capable of suspending some of your disbelief a little. Then this is for you. If you’re a bit anal retentive about details and need the physics to be exact and find yourself saying ‘they wouldn’t do that’ or ‘that wouldn’t happen’ then give it a miss. The characters are strong, in particular the women, and there’s an utterly superb story arc for one character who you start off disliking but will end up in admiration of. Some people have called out the strong women theme as being a bit forced. I personally found it very well done. It’s an alternative reality fairly closely aligned with earth’s real history of that period and onwards and what they’ve done (for want of a better word) is bring girl power forward by 20 years BUT it’s not in your face, but it does just continually highlight how ridiculous it is that us men have had it all our way for so long, and how the beliefs and attitudes of that time were so suffocating for women. They have captured the loneliness and isolation of space, what I imagine to be, really well. You always get a strong sense that there is very little between the characters and the vacuum of space, but also quite simply that once on the moon they are literally on their own with the nearest physical help 400,000km away. The characters are a bit difficult to like at first, it takes a few episodes to ease in, but after that it gets better and better. I couldn’t stop watching it to its crescendo climax. Brilliant. One of my favourites.