Anyone watching "Away" on Netflix?

Hilary Swank is the commander of a 3-year mission to Mars on a ship with about 5-6 people on it, including her. The show is all about (1) the challenges of getting to Mars while (2) being separated from your family and loved ones who need you back on Earth.

I'm about 5 episodes in. I don't love it, but I like it. They have a knack for closing the episodes really well, in a dreamy, musical, emotional sort of way that makes you really connect with the characters and want to keep watching. When Hilary Swank's character talks to her family from space, there's a calmness and affection in her voice (yes, Hilary Swank) that is really endearing and makes you believe that she really loves them and misses them.

Here she is, looking sad.

Posted: 09/11/2020 at 2:55PM

Anyone watching "Away" on Netflix? -- Will Stewart

09/11/2020 2:55PM

Based on that picture I would have been willing to pay -- okiehokie1 09/11/2020 7:46PM

Will, did you like Interstellar? -- MP4VT2004 09/11/2020 4:42PM

I got 30 minutes in to the first one and quit. Was looking for action, not -- RoswellGAHokie 09/11/2020 4:31PM

...yah; me3. lacked escape-velocity (even if not a total flop). ** -- bourbonstreet 09/11/2020 9:58PM

Try watching The Expanse on Amazon Prime. ** -- HokieSignGuy 09/11/2020 5:09PM

I finished it yesterday...I enjoyed it. ** -- Major Kong 09/11/2020 3:48PM

Just 2 episodes in. Less Sci-Fi and much more Soap Opera in my opinion ** -- Hokerer 09/11/2020 3:21PM

Said the same above before I read this. Spot on. ** -- RoswellGAHokie 09/11/2020 4:31PM

That's exactly how it looks. ** -- HokieSignGuy 09/11/2020 3:24PM

Just finished the season -- hokiehunter07 09/11/2020 3:16PM

That annoys the hell out of me with space travel movies -- HokieSignGuy 09/11/2020 3:24PM

Ill have to give this a look. The engineering challenges are difficult as -- ColoVT82 09/11/2020 3:12PM

Oh, they don't get technical at all. -- Will Stewart

09/11/2020 3:42PM

It is my wife/daughter shared show. -- HokieHutch 09/11/2020 3:11PM

Tell them to watch Cobra Kai. ** -- HokieSignGuy 09/11/2020 3:22PM

I was reluctant to start it because it looks like every other space mission -- HokieSignGuy 09/11/2020 3:06PM

We just finished an 8-episode "Bancroft" on britbox, about a (spoiler) -- PhotoHokieNC 09/11/2020 3:06PM

I'm finally getting to Cobra Kai now! ** -- NokieHokie 09/11/2020 3:02PM

Yeeaasssssss.... Cobra Kai!!! Have fun with it. ** -- HokieSignGuy 09/11/2020 3:03PM

I'm really enjoying it! I just got to wear JL won the appeal for tourney. ** -- NokieHokie 09/11/2020 3:05PM

Lol, yes, I LOVE the end to that episode. Those two really brought the -- HokieSignGuy 09/11/2020 3:07PM

Pretty cool tee shirt during at home scene -- Spudnut 09/11/2020 3:01PM

Good gawd! She's a frookin' hoo!!!! ** -- PhotoHokieNC 09/11/2020 3:08PM

Maybe that's why the link doesn't work. ** -- AZHokie59 09/11/2020 3:46PM

Never mind, it finally worked. ** -- AZHokie59 09/11/2020 3:49PM

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh -- PhotoHokieNC 09/11/2020 3:09PM

Some things you just can't unsee . . . . ** -- Spudnut 09/11/2020 3:50PM

You can see the log splitter uncertainty in her eyes, huh? ** -- PhotoHokieNC 09/11/2020 4:12PM

That is not uncertainty, that is -- Spudnut 09/11/2020 4:17PM

Surely. She blushes, "I feel as though he could launch me into space."** -- PhotoHokieNC 09/11/2020 4:22PM

Oops, double post** -- Spudnut 09/11/2020 4:15PM

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