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Critic Reviews
Oct 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
[The actors are] all perfectly fine, and Adams and McDorman are at times, better than fine. The rest of the cast is solid, with good work from actresses who play the all-too-often long-suffering wives of the Mercury Seven. ... “The Right Stuff” feels like a band playing the hits we’ve already heard way too many times already.
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TV Guide MagazineOct 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Though it rarely achieves electrifying liftoff in the five episodes available for review, what resonated most is a character study of straitlaced den father John Glenn (a solid Patrick J. Adams). [12 - 25 Oct 2020, p.9]
Oct 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Solely on its own merits, the series, a presentation of National Geographic (airing on Disney+), is a perfectly serviceable drama about a rococo period of American history and the complicated, high-flying, surprisingly unlikable people who flew the Mercury space missions of the 1960s.
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Oct 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
When it comes to digging into the specific characters embedded in this vividly created world, something “Mad Men” did with such nuance, “The Right Stuff” doesn’t go far enough. It isn’t until the fourth episode (critics were given five to preview) that the show offers at least a semi-intimate look into the men behind the images, as Wolfe did.
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Oct 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The actors do their best to overcome the flat writing, and the show does find its stride by the fifth episode (which is all that Disney Plus made available for this review). What the new “Right Stuff” is missing are the qualities it can probably never have: currency and context.
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Oct 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
This Right Stuff doesn’t have much to say beyond observing the basic dichotomy between the astronauts’ superhuman images and their extremely fallible behavior. The story crawls along incrementally without using all that time to let us know its characters as anything but the broadest of archetypes. Outside of one strong scene where the guys share stories of near-fatal test flights, there’s barely any sense of how they function as a group.
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Oct 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The series takes five hours to cover what the film does in about 70 minutes—and somehow leaves the viewer with even less insight into this world. The show is desperately lacking in grit; everything is washed with prestige-TV gloss and creeps forward with anticlimactic inevitability.
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Oct 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“The Right Stuff” is not bad, or even boring, just thin and unconvincing. Its budget shows, in the negative sense, and its best points are to be found here and there in small things — individual performances, selected exchanges and assorted old gewgaws and gadgets that decorate the screen.
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