Monday, 27 January 2020

For All Mankind — Series 1: Episode 4 — Prime Crew — A Review

27th January, 2020.


There’s time I could kick the NHS, as much as I think it’s a wonderful basic thing.

Right now … ?

I’ve got blocked ears: giving me a mild, but distracting, case of earache.

All it would take to solve it … ?

Is a good old fashioned syringing … except, of course, the doctor’s clinics in our area have stopped doing them.

So my only possibly option is to go private … 

Except I haven’t got the cash for it.

Quite what I’m supposed to do, there, I don’t know … 

The important question, though … ?

Did it stop me watching another episode of For All Mankind’s first series?

Nope!

~≈¥≈~

Episode 4 — Prime Crew — opens straight after the memorial of Patty Doyle (Cass Buggé): showing us her fellow trainees coming back to base after the funeral.

With Tracey (Sarah Jones) being struck hardest: it had been her in the rest vehicle, just before the explosion that killed Patty.

The bad news … ?   The bad news — and the heavy political pressure — has not stopped NASA from carrying on training the remaining female astronauts.

Nor does it stop Deke Slayton (Chris Bauer) from taking Gordo (Michael Dorman) off of the upcoming Apollo 15 mission.

And replacing him with the rumbustious Molly Cobb (Sonya Walger).

Things … ?

Could get explosive …

~≈¥≈~

Now … am I in a funny mood … ?

Yes: I am.

That earache is doing nothing for me, frankly.

But … ?

That’s not stopped me fro enjoying a good episode.

It does strike me that Prime Crew is more of a politically driven episode: than one that focuses on politics, and hints at buried issues, rather than heading for the skies … 

Something that thankfully, is remedied by the end of the episode.

Frankly?

I’m looking forward to episode 5.

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