Season 1 – The Astronaut Wives Club

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Andrei D 08/16/2024 It needs more focus and less historical drivebys See more Robbie K 12/18/2018 Amazing show! What I like most about it is the historical background of it all. From Women's Rights to African American Civil Rights and to the assassination of JFK. Hearing about the stories behind the scenes of great contributors to society, astronauts, makes for a great TV show. I love all the characters and the era it takes place. A lot was happening in the country in the 1960s and I love that we get to see it play out on TV again. There aren't too many shows nowadays that has captured this point in time and I think it's doing an amazing job! The scandal, the drama, the politics of it all is what makes this show worth watching. It's just not a show about women and their Plesantville lives. Enjoyed it . To bad it was cancelled . See more 11/10/2015 We beg for a second season See more 09/28/2015 Interesting watch, bringing to light the lives of strong women. Struggles to deal with more complex issues of the time like racial conflict and women's rights but definitely a compelling narrative. See more 09/05/2015 Loved this story, set in the 60's when I was a teen. Good, clean entertainment that showed the morals of the times. Should be more shows like this during prime time. See more 08/18/2015 I was laying on a beach on a casual Sunday flipping through a magazine when I came across an advertisement for ABC’s Astronaut Wives Club–with my heart going from a soft thumping to almost beating out of my chest I sat up and screamed! Finally a TV show about the Space Race! The Era I didn’t get to live through. This will be the closest I ever get to experiencing it! I love space, I love NASA but I really really love the History of the first Space Missions: Mercury, Gemini and Apollo –and now ABC was going to be debuting a show all about the early days of NASA! Does it get any better? The show would be following the lives of the Mercury 7 Astronauts along with their wives and the NASA program. It started from the first news conference and speculation about who would be the first man up in Freedom 7 (the first manned mission) launched on May 5, 1961. Ooh the 60’s! I genuinely believe that I was born in the wrong Era–I would give anything to be able to step back in time and experience a little bit of the 60’s especially because of the Space program and how it beautifully created unity between fellow Americans. All of my hopes for this series slowly came to a hault after watching just one episode. Now, don’t get me wrong–I knew this was not going to be a completely accurate portrayal and I had an idea, that of course ABC would be taking creative liberties but I had no idea that they would be smearing the names of our American Hero’s and NASA for that matter. For starters Alan Shepard is painted as a low-life cheating man–it is true that Alan was accused over the years of being a little bit of womanizer but in reality Louise and Alan were Married for 53 years and very devoted to each other according to Neal Thompsons biography of Alan Shepard. Another attack on the Sheperds was that Louise had an affair or “almost affair” with a Life Magazine Reporter named Max Kaplan–go ahead google Max Kaplan, you won’t find anything because he simply is not real. He was a fictional character that ABC made up for the show. Way to Go ABC–let’s not only make Alan Shepard (our first American Man in Space) look like a low-life but let’s also smear his wife’s reputation at the same time. For a woman that was nicknamed “St. Louise,” that’s quite a far fetched story line don’t you think? Isn’t the marriage of our American Hero’s kind of an untouchable subject–especially when these people are dead and can’t defend themselves anymore? Why are we re-writing history in a negative way? If you made it all the way down to here then you might want to check out my blog post goldiejames.com/astronaut_wives_club where I debunk more of the episodes. See more Read all reviews

The Astronaut Wives Club — Season 1

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