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The Right Stuff - Season 1
U.S. fighter pilots are recruited to test experimental aircraft and rockets to become first Mercury astronauts. TV adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book, 'The Right Stuff'.
24 September 1986, Washington, USA
3 August 1983, New York City, New York, USA
14 June 1989, Orange County, California, USA
26 January 1981, Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland
December 29, 1958 in Meriden, Connecticut, USA
October 07, 2020
Where Staples' show really cooks is in the dynamic between the 7, in all their testosterone-fueled competition.
October 06, 2020
A blandly-cast, boringly-acted, dully-written, flatly-directed and instantly-forgotten bore.
October 06, 2020
As a dramatic series, it's phenomenal; it's frequently touching and just as thrilling. But as a show that could potentially usher in a new era of Disney+, it's even more exciting.
October 08, 2020
A tepid eight-part remake, originally announced for the National Geographic channel but now airing on Disney+, feels more like underpowered soap opera.
October 06, 2020
There's not a lot of wonder or enthusiasm to this version of The Right Stuff, which mostly treats the space program as a grim endurance test.
October 08, 2020
The story crawls along incrementally without using all that time to let us know its characters as anything but the broadest of archetypes.
October 07, 2020
Not only does this TV version of "The Right Stuff" not bring anything new to the table, but it has pretty much every bad habit Hollywood is currently trying to get rid of...
October 07, 2020
The Right Stuff is unexpectedly thought-provoking in its consideration of what America wants out of its heroes.
October 07, 2020
What it loses in momentum, however, this Disney+ series gains in its characterizations, offering a satisfying voyage back into the stories of the men at the center of the Mercury 7 space program, as well as the women that loved and/or endured them.
October 06, 2020
Approach it simply as Hunky Young Astronauts in Love rather than a Wolfe adaptation... like the movie, it still can't find time to dedicate a full episode to NASA's test monkeys - and you might even be able to dispense with some of the disappointment.
October 08, 2020
The actors do their best to overcome the flat writing, and the show does find its stride by the fifth episode. What the new "Right Stuff" is missing are the qualities it can probably never have: currency and context.
October 08, 2020
The Right Stuff is not bad, or even boring, just thin and unconvincing.
