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Critic Reviews
Sep 2, 2020
Season 1 Review:
In some ways this series, with its own Academy Award winner in Hilary Swank, feels like “Gravity: The Series.” However, due to its episodic nature, it goes much deeper than a film can when it comes to chronicling the sacrifice, complexities and thrill the people on this kind of mission would experience. A riveting TV series, “Away” is well worth your time.
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TV Guide MagazineAug 28, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Away works on several levels, at its best as a gripping and spectacularly produced cinematic space opera. [31 Aug - 13 Sep 2020, p.7]
Aug 28, 2020
Season 1 Review:
An issue-free mission to Mars doesn’t make for compelling television. So in every episode there is a major and often life-threatening issue for the crew to deal with. This could try our patience as the seasons progress (much like June’s almost-escapes from Gilead have on The Handmaid’s Tale). But for the inaugural 10 episodes it works perfectly, particularly the taut middle episode that have the crew facing a daunting crisis.
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Sep 4, 2020
Season 1 Review:
One of the producers here is Jason Katims ("Friday Night Lights,” “Parenthod”) and the warm familial intimacy of his previous shows flows through “Away.” The cast is uniformly strong and there’s a reason Swank has two Oscars. “Away” isn’t great but it is unique, and that’s good enough.
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Sep 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Everyone’s well-intentioned, fundamentally decent, and capable. There are no villains, only complicated situations. When someone suggests it’s better for an astronaut to die in space a hero than return home a coward, the argument feels profound, not diabolical. This makes the series dramatically frustrating at times, but given our current social and political climate, it’s also refreshing.
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Sep 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The sagas of the families left behind—largely, family life sociology with a touch of soap opera—are, at least, watchable and sometimes better than that. They can’t, however, compare with the irresistible drama of life on the spaceship. ... These 10 hours spent hurtling toward Mars hold the promise of rich entertainment.
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Sep 2, 2020
Season 1 Review:
I appreciated the way each episode gives us a different astronaut’s backstory, “Lost”-like, to add context to their behavior in space. And I liked thinking big thoughts about what it might be like to spend three years away from the planet, which the astronauts are facing, fighting off despair and loneliness.
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