![]() ![]() We also checked other leading streaming services including Prime Video, Apple TV+, Binge. ![]() I like what I’ve seen, though there are more than a couple of moments where the only possible reaction is “Naaah. Our data shows that the Ascension is available to stream on Apple TV. There was James Toback (the name, a reference. There was Stokes (Brad Carter) watching space opera on a motel telly, ogling the space princesses. ![]() There are misunderstood teenagers, angry workers, disaffected spouses, illicit lovers and a little girl who sees things. Ascension was a stir of sci-fi (and Syfy) echoes. But as the point is to play around in all the old tropes of class, sex and race they made ‘50s potboilers out of, that would be dramatically counterproductive. Find ratings and reviews for the newest movie and TV shows. For one thing, miscegenation, to use that bad old word, is illegal. IMDb is the worlds most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. In packing this crew off to a brand-new world, no one apparently thought to make it a better one. Bell is the black first officer, who’s come up from the lower decks and is tasked with investigating the murder - the first the ship or he has ever known. In another show, an extremely popular TV series, the level of violence was. The ship - smartly designed and realized, revealed with a seamless fly-through of its floors - is arranged as a metaphor on class: The lower orders (maintenance workers, meat packers) make shift down low while the more highly ranked live large up top, near the windows, where the walls are spotless starship white.īrian Van Holt, the layabout ex-husband on “Cougar Town,” is the ship’s captain, a local hero Tricia Helfer, who was Cylon Number Six on “Battlestar Galactica,” plays his wife, wielding power behind the scenes via her stewardesses, I guess you’d call them. It was supposed to be funny because the kids and adults who were brutalized. (It died in the Kennedy administration, supposedly after the president was shown a super-weaponized model.) But I also can imagine this series being pitched as a kind of “Mad Men” in space, or a “Peyton Place” in space, if anyone would get that reference, or - as there is a murder - “NCIS: Space,” or given the cartoonish midcentury mood, even “Twin Peaks” in space. But it does allow for a pleasing use of old tech and fashions, and the creation of a world, to quote one Earthbound character, “that never knew the Summer of Love, Betty Friedan, ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X,’ the Clash.” And that pretty well covers the second half of the 20th century.Ĭreator Philip Levens (“Smallville”) reportedly took inspiration from Project Orion, which in the late 1950s and early 1960s sought to create a really big, reusable spacecraft to be propelled by little atomic explosions. ![]()
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