Mars

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Season 1
Season #: 2, 1
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5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 70 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 70
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 70
  3. Negative: 24 out of 70
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  1. JOGS
    Nov 15, 2016
    5
    The trailer of Mars wasn't getting me excited to be honest.
    But I have to say episode 1 entertained me.
    It didn't look as fake as I expected it to be, and the docu/sci-fy combo wasn't that bad... I like the effort. Too bad it's almost only Space-X reallife footage, hopefully that will change. But hey...on the other hand, there is only 1 company really rocking the space-show nowadays    The trailer of Mars wasn't getting me excited to be honest.
    But I have to say episode 1 entertained me.
    It didn't look as fake as I expected it to be, and the docu/sci-fy combo wasn't that bad... I like the effort.

    Too bad it's almost only Space-X reallife footage, hopefully that will change.
    But hey...on the other hand, there is only 1 company really rocking the space-show nowadays right? :)

    Looking forward to the rest of the season.
    Hopefully it can enlight the flame of space-travel and mars in particular even more.    … Expand
  2. abm0
    Dec 8, 2018
    4
    Starts out pretty promising - the 2037 sci-fi parts look really good, like a well-produced modern sci-fi, and the 2016 documentary sections are done well enough that they don't feel too much out of place, plus they showed me information about SpaceX that I didn't actually know, like what their core project is for making interplanetary travel viable.

    And that good part lasts about 1    Starts out pretty promising - the 2037 sci-fi parts look really good, like a well-produced modern sci-fi, and the 2016 documentary sections are done well enough that they don't feel too much out of place, plus they showed me information about SpaceX that I didn't actually know, like what their core project is for making interplanetary travel viable.

    And that good part lasts about 1 episode and a half. After that, the documentary side becomes just a series of interruptions of the 'main content' like somebody getting trigger-happy with the remote control and switching back and forth to some annoying History-channel like flashbacks about previous manned missions, which no longer adds anything worthwhile to the sci-fi part. Plusss the sci-fi part itself devolves into a bunch of unnecessarily slow scenes of people in space suits walking over dusty or rocky terrain, unnecessarily long "dramatic" conversations and people with grim expressions staring to one side of the camera for too long, and the occasional "victory" of the colonists which elicits fake cheers, fake laughter and some hugs even though the happy event will have typically occurred due to dumb luck instead of any intelligent effort on the colonists' part.

    Whatever good parts this had could have been condensed into 2-3 episodes, easy. It still wouldn't have reached masterpiece levels of quality, but it could've at least been decent, like a 7/10 let's say, just for the few big important ideas we get here about what's likely to be problematic about trying to colonize Mars.

    I will watch a second season if they make one, but I expect to need substantial fast-forwarding again, just like I did in order to finish S1 after it got really documentary-ish, "dramatic" and boring.    … Expand
  3. AmyBenevento
    Mar 11, 2019
    6
    Definitely different, this TV series shines a light to the fascination many of us have with the idea of earth people forming a colony on Mars, but... this show lacks heart. The pacing is wrong. It seems too quick and jagged. The scenes lack detail, often just skimming the surface. However, the parallels between documentary-style 2016 and fictional 2033+ show an interesting comparison toDefinitely different, this TV series shines a light to the fascination many of us have with the idea of earth people forming a colony on Mars, but... this show lacks heart. The pacing is wrong. It seems too quick and jagged. The scenes lack detail, often just skimming the surface. However, the parallels between documentary-style 2016 and fictional 2033+ show an interesting comparison to what may be in our near future, based on factual events that are happening today. Today's facts, which are revealed in the documentary by interviews and actual news footage, foreshadow the fictional future in a way I've never seen depicted with a television series.

    I admire the boldness of this series. It's just misses the mark and lacks emotion. It's as cold as space.    … Expand

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59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Nov 14, 2016
    50
    Both the documentary footage and the staged footage set in 2033 smack of a generous budget; it’s easy on the eyes. But though the alternating elements get equal time, they aren’t equally interesting, and the series is engaging and frustrating by turns.
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  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Nov 14, 2016
    50
    The six-part event series obscures a reasonably engrossing, science-star-studded documentary about future exploration of the Red Planet with a far less interesting scripted drama about Mars travel that plays as basically The Martian without the personality or poop potatoes.
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  3. Cleveland Plain Dealer
    Reviewed by: Mark Dawidziak
    Nov 14, 2016
    70
    What Mars lacks in consistency, it makes up with scope and scale.
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