Retarded

After 2 episodes, I have to give this the gong on the basis of 3 offenses:

1. The producers are woke. The show is not terribly woke so far, but the mission control staff is DEI. Admittedly, the science manager is an old white guy, but he had to be an old white guy, because the character is evil and this is an Apple production. The forecast is for gay, lots and lots of gay by season 2.

2. The writers are retarded. In their retarded world, a crippled ISS will run out of breathable air within seconds after the solar panels stop receiving sunlight. In reality, the ISS encloses a volume of 1,000 cubic meters of air. A single person would not even get a headache breathing this same air for a couple of days. True, there had been a decompression and perhaps subsequently the crew area was at low pressure, but the situation should not instantly change each time the Sun goes down. That's not all. The astronauts behave in retarded ways, not because astronauts are retarded but because the writers are.

3. The writers are "lost". A science experiment on the ISS causes the quantum multiverse to warp reality for those who observed the experiment. So, weird shit happens. I am personally oversaturated with weird shit entertainment: Lost, From, Event Horizon, Solaris, The Shift, Colony, and The Expanse. I love some of those, but I'm a bit burned out on this general theme. More importantly, I do not trust Constellation's retarded writers to do anything but keep adding weird shit without a satisfying resolution.

On a positive note, it's breathtakingly beautifully filmed. Alas, the writers certainly weren't hired on the basis on merit. This why we can't have nice shows.